Actually, there are substantial awards being sponsored by the banking industry for suggestions for improving their security measures. Simply reply with your account number, routing number, and idea for improvement and I'll see that you're properly compensated.
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There would/should be nothing wrong with you using a knoppix live cd. Agreed. There would/should also be nothing wrong with inserting and removing a read-only DVD into a read-only CD drive on a classified computer and then removing it from the facility. But SOP states that, after such a grievous breach of security, the DVD should be degaussed (?!?), shredded, and incinerated... Not all security policies are based solely on ensuring security.
If I'm staying in a hotel at nights, then I'm bringing my own laptop and thus, STILL don't need to use a public terminal. I hate to keep harping on the same note, but privately owned laptops are not permitted on the sites banning cell phones, imposing restrictions on company laptops, etc. And leaving cell phones/private laptops/etc in hotel rooms is only practical if you can persuade your company to pay for extra hotel nights so that you can swing by between work & the airport to drop off/pick up your stuff.
An area without WiFi hotspots isn't worth traveling to.
I work for the government as well (.mil) You do government work in secure areas and are allowed a laptop without the wireless capabilities hardware-disabled? There are apparently some real differences between our work environments. Are you allowed to take your laptop to the areas you work in, or is it simply for uncleared/public/home use? Not trying to be a jerk - I'm genuinely curious.
What kind of place doesn't allow phones and also has publicly available computers to use? People who work in restricted areas may want to take their laptops back to their hotels after work...
Buy an iPhone and use that for net access (or blackberry, whatever). Problem solved...
That's prohibitively difficult for those of us who regularly travel to destinations where we're not allowed phones (not even left in the car).
Some of us (per federal regulations) are not allowed the luxury of wireless capability on our work laptops. And, even if we were, trusting public WiFi or hotel-room Ethernet is a little suspect.
The same could be said for supporting minor browsers, such as Safari. I believe that's why many web pages don't bother testing for compatibility with minor browsers, such as Safari.
Some sites (www.google.com, slashdot.org) can be adapted for use by the blind, so the admins need to consider them when incorporating a captcha. Others (images.google.com, www.hotmonkeylove.com) are inherently based for people with normal vision, so these image based captchas should be just fine.
mandatory bluetooth collars next??? Yes. The obvious next step to analysis of open-air traffic is electronic tagging and tracking of free citizens. Of course, that will just be to get us to drop our guard while they prepare to implant their dream-recorders to preemptively stop terror by arresting us for thought crime.
Some of their patents are on extremely useful ideas. For example, a few years back, they patented a method for allowing user processes to perform actions with Administrator privileges. Don't you Linux fans wish that you could license something like that?
There were vendors showing off similar drives at a show here last year. (These may differ significantly - I dunno.) The drives at the show stored the keys on small devices similar to thumb drives. So, unless somebody also stole your key, everything was locked up. They actually had received approval for storing classified information (up to SRD I believe) on the drives without having to remove them and lock them up when not in use. So, if you're working and need to get up and grab some coffee/relieve yourself of your last cup of coffee/whatever, you could pull the key and take it with you rather than pull the hard drive and lock it up in the vault. Very convenient for folks working in that kind of environment.
It's your body. Put into it what you what. Follow my example if you want, or don't. It's not MY place to force you to eat healthy I generally try to avoid patronizing my eating companions. Follow my example if you want, or don't. It's not MY place to force you to treat your friends with respect.
Fuck PETA and the horse they rode in on. Then eat the damned horse! If that's what you do prior to preparing food, remind me never to come over for dinner... Horsey love... Yuck...
...perhaps the PETA people might want to sponsor some genetic engineering research to allow humans to digest the plant matter that cows can eat that we can't. I actually eat grass all of the time, it just needs to be preprocessed before it's ready for direct consumption. Personally, I run it through a cow, have the butcher extract it once it's ready, and then grill it up and enjoy it. Grass can be delicious when properly prepared.
If have accessibility barriers so serious that you can't tell a picture of a kitten from a picture of a dog or tell the difference between a kitten meowing and a dog barking, where are you trying to register?
Hooray! I love pedantic punctuation battles. Defend the semi-colons in this "sentence", hot-shot:
RCA plugs intended for soldering and assembly have certain attributes in common; their diameter is constrained by the need for the shell to fit over an internal set of solder points and cable clamp, and their length by the need to provide some room for cable end prep and attachment; they are generally radially symmetrical along the anterior/posterior axis owing to the need to accommodate both a round-profile cable and the round-profile RCA socket; the connector end is constrained by the standard dimensions of the RCA socket, and by the need, as the socket provides for no bayonet or screw attachment, to provide sufficient tension on insertion to maintain good mechanical and electrical contact; the barrel, grasped by the user for the purpose of insertion and removal, requires traction which is typically provided by raised or recessed rings, plastic inserts, knurling, or the like; and transition between the connector and the cable to which it is attached requires, in one form or another, a reduction in barrel size at the connector rear. Technically I have no idea whether he's violating any punctuation rules (and don't care - this guy is wicked cool), but I think that the purpose of that "sentence" may have been to inflict pain on the reader.
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Actually, there are substantial awards being sponsored by the banking industry for suggestions for improving their security measures. Simply reply with your account number, routing number, and idea for improvement and I'll see that you're properly compensated.
Also, if you're interested, I've got some possibly very enterprising lines regarding bridge sales and investment properties in Florida. Ask me how!
They're around (more than you might imagine), but not in the private sector. I'll be leaving at 6:00 AM tomorrow to travel to one...
Kind of true, but tools like that are not simple "keyloggers".
Some of us (per federal regulations) are not allowed the luxury of wireless capability on our work laptops. And, even if we were, trusting public WiFi or hotel-room Ethernet is a little suspect.
Manatees look a little silly too...
Some sites (www.google.com, slashdot.org) can be adapted for use by the blind, so the admins need to consider them when incorporating a captcha. Others (images.google.com, www.hotmonkeylove.com) are inherently based for people with normal vision, so these image based captchas should be just fine.
Actually, the RIAA does not want to sue the students - It would much prefer to just talk to them. And threaten to sue them to extort $$$.
Want to buy some tin-foil? Your head looks cold.
Some of their patents are on extremely useful ideas. For example, a few years back, they patented a method for allowing user processes to perform actions with Administrator privileges. Don't you Linux fans wish that you could license something like that?
I've been searched a bunch of times without cause between El Paso and Las Cruces. Texas and New Mexico are technically in the U.S.
There were vendors showing off similar drives at a show here last year. (These may differ significantly - I dunno.) The drives at the show stored the keys on small devices similar to thumb drives. So, unless somebody also stole your key, everything was locked up. They actually had received approval for storing classified information (up to SRD I believe) on the drives without having to remove them and lock them up when not in use. So, if you're working and need to get up and grab some coffee/relieve yourself of your last cup of coffee/whatever, you could pull the key and take it with you rather than pull the hard drive and lock it up in the vault. Very convenient for folks working in that kind of environment.
Soylent Green wasn't fake meat - It was real meat. It was fake plankton.
...wouldn't it just be easier to genetically engineer cows without souls? But the soul's the best part! Mmmm... Fillet of soul...
...perhaps the PETA people might want to sponsor some genetic engineering research to allow humans to digest the plant matter that cows can eat that we can't. I actually eat grass all of the time, it just needs to be preprocessed before it's ready for direct consumption. Personally, I run it through a cow, have the butcher extract it once it's ready, and then grill it up and enjoy it. Grass can be delicious when properly prepared.One problem that I've noticed is that muckity-mucks often feel that they're "above" being targeted by such menial things as malware.
If have accessibility barriers so serious that you can't tell a picture of a kitten from a picture of a dog or tell the difference between a kitten meowing and a dog barking, where are you trying to register?