That occurred to me too. There are thousands of boxes in my department too. There are also a handful of people to admin them for us. Personally, I only admin a handful of systems at home.
Use an OS that prevents on application from rummaging through your computer.
It seems reasonable to you to change your OS in order to play a Windows-based game (and everything else you've purchased that runs on Windows) in a VM environment and set up all the appropriate proxies, etc., for all of your software? Methinks you're not a typical gamer... And have a lot of time on your hands.
Problem: "I think it's unreasonable for police to enter my house and randomly search everything." Solution: "Then prevent them. Move your family to Mexico and you can all just fly back and forth every day to prevent them from rummaging through your house."
Do you feel uncomfortable driving threw minority neighborhood, do you lock your door just in case?
Even minorities are careful about locking their doors in neighborhoods with large minority populations. Those tend to be high-crime neighborhoods. People lock their doors regardless of the shade of skin of the people living in high-crime neighborhoods.
The fact that many neighborhoods with large numbers of minorities living there are largely coincident with high-crime areas may be a result of a legacy of racism, but locking your doors in high-crime areas is not in itself racist.
"driving threw minority neighborhood" Am I to assume that you're not a native speaker and therefore likely minority? Just asking, my wife is a minority and not a native speaker and often makes similar errors. We also spend a lot of time in Lao & Hispanic neighborhoods and we, like the Lao people we're visiting, do lock our doors. [I realize it properly should be Laotian. But if they say Lao, I do too.]
It is to bad that we can't even experience a high quality images of the world we live in.
Actually, I was just outside (a scary thought I know) and was able to discern things much smaller than 25 cm. The world is incredible to view - The best way is to decide what you want to see most, then find a way to go take it in with incredible resolution. Not much tech involved than what most of us were born with.
Pretty sure you have no idea what chip and PIN is. It only works with direct electrical contact. You are probably confusing it with RFID which we already have and nobody really uses.
It's only SUPPOSED to work with direct electrical contact. I'm wearing a badge this minute in a (mostly) optically transparent sleeve. It has a 12-point chip (there's also a magnetic stripe on the back, but the sleeves are only required for the "new" ones - We go to a lot of areas run by other entities that still require a swipe/handprint to get through the door.) We have readers attached to every computer that make electrical contact with this chip and allow us to enter our password to log in. But, even WE have equipment that can read them from 1-2" away outside the sleeve - That's not because there's embedded RFID somewhere in the plastic laminate; it's because, at least with the system we use, you can sufficiently excite them without direct contact. I assure you that the system is not second rate (at least the "powers that be" don't think so) - Our overlords are just as motivated as the big banks to keep things locked down.
I realize that you can claim that if they can be excited remotely that it implies RFID, but at least in this case it's a side effect rather than a design feature.
I'd suspect the latter. And instead of a kill switch, wouldn't a switch forcibly enabling GPS tracking be more effective? Of course, misuse could be an issue.
I'm assuming that the people building those ships were enjoying their time doing it - Otherwise, why would they pay for the privilege? Using your analogy, wealth is destroyed every time we use time for something that doesn't yield an end-product other than personal gratification (e.g. watching a movie, non-reproductive sex, posting on/., playing video games, etc.)
Was the botnet doing anything bad? Or was it just making Tor faster for everyone?
Even if it was doing nothing but running tor in the background, then for people that don't have unlimited bandwidth use yes it was doing something bad.
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That occurred to me too. There are thousands of boxes in my department too. There are also a handful of people to admin them for us. Personally, I only admin a handful of systems at home.
Use an OS that prevents on application from rummaging through your computer.
It seems reasonable to you to change your OS in order to play a Windows-based game (and everything else you've purchased that runs on Windows) in a VM environment and set up all the appropriate proxies, etc., for all of your software? Methinks you're not a typical gamer... And have a lot of time on your hands.
Problem: "I think it's unreasonable for police to enter my house and randomly search everything."
Solution: "Then prevent them. Move your family to Mexico and you can all just fly back and forth every day to prevent them from rummaging through your house."
Yeah - It's just that easy.
Do you feel uncomfortable driving threw minority neighborhood, do you lock your door just in case?
Even minorities are careful about locking their doors in neighborhoods with large minority populations. Those tend to be high-crime neighborhoods. People lock their doors regardless of the shade of skin of the people living in high-crime neighborhoods.
The fact that many neighborhoods with large numbers of minorities living there are largely coincident with high-crime areas may be a result of a legacy of racism, but locking your doors in high-crime areas is not in itself racist.
"driving threw minority neighborhood"
Am I to assume that you're not a native speaker and therefore likely minority? Just asking, my wife is a minority and not a native speaker and often makes similar errors. We also spend a lot of time in Lao & Hispanic neighborhoods and we, like the Lao people we're visiting, do lock our doors.
[I realize it properly should be Laotian. But if they say Lao, I do too.]
Yeah! Take that, Haiti!
I was looking for someone a little more open and liberal. So, I went left.
No. 2 demerits for not learning from your first mistake.
Learn from that? Sure, finding the mean with one test case is easy. But do you have any idea how wide the error bars are???
I'm in one. White-white lasted ~12 years. White-Asian is ongoing.
I'm an engineer - And I'm married for the second time! Do I count double?
I tried to turn mine off, but it bit me! I tried throwing Androids at it, but zombies started flowing out of the Apple store to defend it!
It is to bad that we can't even experience a high quality images of the world we live in.
Actually, I was just outside (a scary thought I know) and was able to discern things much smaller than 25 cm. The world is incredible to view - The best way is to decide what you want to see most, then find a way to go take it in with incredible resolution. Not much tech involved than what most of us were born with.
Pretty sure you have no idea what chip and PIN is. It only works with direct electrical contact. You are probably confusing it with RFID which we already have and nobody really uses.
It's only SUPPOSED to work with direct electrical contact. I'm wearing a badge this minute in a (mostly) optically transparent sleeve. It has a 12-point chip (there's also a magnetic stripe on the back, but the sleeves are only required for the "new" ones - We go to a lot of areas run by other entities that still require a swipe/handprint to get through the door.) We have readers attached to every computer that make electrical contact with this chip and allow us to enter our password to log in. But, even WE have equipment that can read them from 1-2" away outside the sleeve - That's not because there's embedded RFID somewhere in the plastic laminate; it's because, at least with the system we use, you can sufficiently excite them without direct contact. I assure you that the system is not second rate (at least the "powers that be" don't think so) - Our overlords are just as motivated as the big banks to keep things locked down.
I realize that you can claim that if they can be excited remotely that it implies RFID, but at least in this case it's a side effect rather than a design feature.
So, is it time to take those shielded wallets seriously?
Your link was the first thing through my mind. You have to be careful when you decide to "throw rocks." TANSTAAFL.
Hey - TANSTAAFL.
I'd suspect the latter. And instead of a kill switch, wouldn't a switch forcibly enabling GPS tracking be more effective? Of course, misuse could be an issue.
No. It wasn't Japanese.
Gods help us if Holly decides to bring Arnie back...
So say we all.
I'm assuming that the people building those ships were enjoying their time doing it - Otherwise, why would they pay for the privilege? Using your analogy, wealth is destroyed every time we use time for something that doesn't yield an end-product other than personal gratification (e.g. watching a movie, non-reproductive sex, posting on /., playing video games, etc.)
Anything that people assign value to has value (e.g. it can be traded). The question is whether any actual wealth was destroyed or merely transferred.
"The bullet flew through the air and hit me in the shoulder." I guess that doesn't meet the second definition, but it's not uncommon usage.
Looks like $2.95 million. I thought the same thing - Wouldn't the $19 million be a much bigger hurdle then $2.95?
I'm thinking I need to come up with something memorable when I drive off a cliff in a stolen flying car.
Pretty much all cars that drive off cliffs are flying. Not for long and the landing sucks, but flying none-the-less.
He hasn't publicly showed off his birth certificate. Therefore, he must be a Kenyan. Kenya's on earth (I think - I've never visited.)
Was the botnet doing anything bad? Or was it just making Tor faster for everyone?
Even if it was doing nothing but running tor in the background, then for people that don't have unlimited bandwidth use yes it was doing something bad.