Hell on Linux you don't need to do that, containers don't get their timestamps updated when you mount them. It's a problem with backups, if you don't want to have to pre-emptively hash-compare all files the easiest workaround is to touch each container in the script before the backup begins.
Plus there's a good chance the hammer wouldn't do it in. I ran over a flash drive with a car once (a light car with fairly wide wheels, but still plenty of weight). I bent the connector back into shape and it still works fine to this day. They seem to survive the laundry often too, a standard flash drive is pretty hard to destroy.
I came up with a better way of using a flash drive here:
A keyfile that is deleted with a wipe utility is one way, but it would have to be on a traditional hard disk since flash can't be wiped reliably.
Another way could be a key on a ramdisk (dangerous!) Or an anti-tampering dongle that fries itself when pierced (these anti-tampering chips are commercially available). Or, it would be slow, but you could write random data to a flash disk and use the hash of the entire partition, if anything was ever written to it (like some zeroes) the code would be lost forever...but also if even one bit went out of whack due to aging, static, or maybe cosmic radiation.
If it's just an OS login password there are many boot disk tools you can use to reset those. An OS login password is defenseless against physical access.
It's already possible to brute force the password out of your mind using an fMRI lie detector.
Here's how it works: You have a screen that displays "the first character of the key to your hard drive is:" and below it starts cycling through all available characters. When the fMRI finds that you recognize the character, it stops and locks the character. Then the display changes to say "the second character of the key to your hard drive is:" and starts cycling a second character, and so on until after the password is completed and the machine will get the additional hit from you recognizing the entire password (or it could just actively try passwords on-the-fly until the decryption works).
I'm sure the nasty agencies that are working with this bleeding-edge tech have already thought of this. Although with enough mental discipline it might be possible for a subject to thwart the test.
And as a poster above has said, semi-auto or full-auto isn't terribly useful anyways. Play any realistic FPS and you'll notice the same thing yourself. Anyone who does this mod is either doing it as a shooting range novelty or to "stick it to the man."
(Worse yet, they did this in a simulated MS Office environment...the only way to get the question right was to choose all the correct menus the first time. If the correct answer was to do something with File:Properties but I went for the Edit menu first, it was wrong immediately.)
Sounds sort of like an MCXX exam, except in those you either get a practical section (where you can click a wrong menu, but IIRC you lose points if you do it too many times) or you get a paper test where you need to have the exact GUI path to whatever you need to do memorized, down to the exact names of the menu items. Needless to say, if you have shitty memory like I do you're SOL.
They already use this, not kidding. When you send in a CV electronically no human sees it until a buzzword-matching program has already checked it for buzzword compliance.
Funny how a scientist who agrees with you is "our best knowledge" whereas one who disagrees with you is a "paid shill".
I'm not playing this stupid game in an unrelated topic. Go to the Flat Earth Society forums if you want to deny science.
Funny how "mainstream science" can consider smoking one thing to be healthy but smoking something else to be unhealthy.
Mainstream science considers smoking tobacco to be unhealthy and smoking cannabis to be roughly as unhealthy, although far less addictive. However cannabis is illegal and tobacco is not.
Still, that particular choice has nothing in common with Alan Turing's "choice", unless you're going to tell us all that being gay is a choice? Or that cannabis users don't have a choice?
I wasn't arguing that being gay is a choice or that cannabis users don't have a choice. I didn't see the "choice" factor as a major point in the discussion.
I'm pretty confident it won't be keeping pets. If keeping animals living in the lap of luxury is wrong, I'm sure the pets don't want us to be right!
It will probably be our use of fossil fuels (environmental damage in the short term, and the wasting of a precious resource in the long term) and complicity in the Second Gilded Age and New Dark Age.
For the record I'm a pirate and open software supporter fighting the New Dark Age tooth and nail, and I do my best to slow the advancement of the Second Gilded Age too. About the fuel...well if it makes you silver-jumpsuit-wearing future-people feel any better my cars don't use much:-P
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Hell on Linux you don't need to do that, containers don't get their timestamps updated when you mount them. It's a problem with backups, if you don't want to have to pre-emptively hash-compare all files the easiest workaround is to touch each container in the script before the backup begins.
Phone storage is flash storage and suffers all the same problems. You just can't trust that flash is wiped.
Plus there's a good chance the hammer wouldn't do it in. I ran over a flash drive with a car once (a light car with fairly wide wheels, but still plenty of weight). I bent the connector back into shape and it still works fine to this day. They seem to survive the laundry often too, a standard flash drive is pretty hard to destroy.
I came up with a better way of using a flash drive here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2657361&cid=38953865
I can't wait for something to go slightly wrong with any piece of hardware or software on the system that could cause a reboot...
A keyfile that is deleted with a wipe utility is one way, but it would have to be on a traditional hard disk since flash can't be wiped reliably.
Another way could be a key on a ramdisk (dangerous!) Or an anti-tampering dongle that fries itself when pierced (these anti-tampering chips are commercially available). Or, it would be slow, but you could write random data to a flash disk and use the hash of the entire partition, if anything was ever written to it (like some zeroes) the code would be lost forever...but also if even one bit went out of whack due to aging, static, or maybe cosmic radiation.
If it's just an OS login password there are many boot disk tools you can use to reset those. An OS login password is defenseless against physical access.
Yep that's only true if you use weak passwords.
It's already possible to brute force the password out of your mind using an fMRI lie detector.
Here's how it works: You have a screen that displays "the first character of the key to your hard drive is:" and below it starts cycling through all available characters. When the fMRI finds that you recognize the character, it stops and locks the character. Then the display changes to say "the second character of the key to your hard drive is:" and starts cycling a second character, and so on until after the password is completed and the machine will get the additional hit from you recognizing the entire password (or it could just actively try passwords on-the-fly until the decryption works).
I'm sure the nasty agencies that are working with this bleeding-edge tech have already thought of this. Although with enough mental discipline it might be possible for a subject to thwart the test.
Relax gun nerds, I see my mistake. s/semi-auto/burst fire/g
And as a poster above has said, semi-auto or full-auto isn't terribly useful anyways. Play any realistic FPS and you'll notice the same thing yourself. Anyone who does this mod is either doing it as a shooting range novelty or to "stick it to the man."
Haha this was my first thought XD
(Worse yet, they did this in a simulated MS Office environment...the only way to get the question right was to choose all the correct menus the first time. If the correct answer was to do something with File:Properties but I went for the Edit menu first, it was wrong immediately.)
Sounds sort of like an MCXX exam, except in those you either get a practical section (where you can click a wrong menu, but IIRC you lose points if you do it too many times) or you get a paper test where you need to have the exact GUI path to whatever you need to do memorized, down to the exact names of the menu items. Needless to say, if you have shitty memory like I do you're SOL.
Guess you can't see my sig, I've never bought an Apple product in my life and don't see it ever happening.
Also I don't live in the US so eBay's right out.
They already use this, not kidding. When you send in a CV electronically no human sees it until a buzzword-matching program has already checked it for buzzword compliance.
I pressed the wrong button and hit the secretary with the clipboard instead of giving it to her :-(
And even if you get through with that, good luck if you live in a HOA mini-dictatorship.
Yeah those aluminum smelting plants and server farms need all the clean-sourced electricity they can get.
Definitely better for the environment at these efficiency numbers. Better to burn methane than to let it escape.
I think day traders do a good enough job of that.
*floating in pool 20 feet away*
WHAT!?
And "you can cut the flamethrower fuel out of the next shipment."
So for women it will say "WARNING - concealed body cavity detected" and for men it will say "WARNING - foreign objects hidden in front of pants"
+1, really sad to have another interesting country on my no-fly list :-(
I look forward to the possibility of traveling there if they ever stop this nonsense.
Funny how a scientist who agrees with you is "our best knowledge" whereas one who disagrees with you is a "paid shill".
I'm not playing this stupid game in an unrelated topic. Go to the Flat Earth Society forums if you want to deny science.
Funny how "mainstream science" can consider smoking one thing to be healthy but smoking something else to be unhealthy.
Mainstream science considers smoking tobacco to be unhealthy and smoking cannabis to be roughly as unhealthy, although far less addictive. However cannabis is illegal and tobacco is not.
Still, that particular choice has nothing in common with Alan Turing's "choice", unless you're going to tell us all that being gay is a choice? Or that cannabis users don't have a choice?
I wasn't arguing that being gay is a choice or that cannabis users don't have a choice. I didn't see the "choice" factor as a major point in the discussion.
I'm pretty confident it won't be keeping pets. If keeping animals living in the lap of luxury is wrong, I'm sure the pets don't want us to be right!
It will probably be our use of fossil fuels (environmental damage in the short term, and the wasting of a precious resource in the long term) and complicity in the Second Gilded Age and New Dark Age.
For the record I'm a pirate and open software supporter fighting the New Dark Age tooth and nail, and I do my best to slow the advancement of the Second Gilded Age too. About the fuel...well if it makes you silver-jumpsuit-wearing future-people feel any better my cars don't use much :-P