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Replying to an AC, but hey, I have a little time to burn.
Thanks for the clarification of the likely employment status of the officer. I'm not sure if you're supposed to be somehow protecting other non-police force security officers somehow by making the distinction, or dragging down the already sullied name of "police officer" by including this barely literate individual within that group. Either way, I don't think my assessment of their demeanour was unfair; They fail at basic English comprehension. I'm surprised s/he was capable of filling in the application form.
Regarding your second point, ad hominim and non sequitur; I am not an asshole, I have never met any campus security and therefore would not generalise about them (having referred to only the one in question in my post), and I don't see a cause / effect relationship between my opinion of the officer's obvious lack of basic language skills as being a cause for their bitterness.
I've never seen Firefly (although I've heard good things, mean to check it out) so all I have to go on is the quoted wording. In and of itself, it is clearly not a threat of any kind based upon even the most cursory of examinations. When taking into account the quoted character's personality it may take on new meaning, but that isn't clear from the poster.
Who'da thunk that a failed mall-cop would screw up something as simple as english comprehension, eh? I've never heard that quote before, yet even I can see that it's essentially saying that the person will only kill another person if they are presenting an immediate and credible threat to said person's life. HURRR DURRR, that's the only time it's legal, and they'd better have the pistol to your head and their finger on the trigger for you to react like that.
Someone send that guy back to kindergarten so he can learn to understand a sentence properly.
- Just be sure to add all the local hospitals to your contacts If someone I know is in hospital, I will know about it through other means. If they have my mobile, they have my home number too.
- And the city jail. And county. And any local police department numbers. The same applies for the police.
- And all your cow-orkers if you're unfortunate enough to be on-call at work. If I am on call, I have a work-provided phone. I answer all calls to that phone, as I'm not paying anyway.
- And your bank(s). My bank does not call me; They send letters. I do not discuss anything do with with my finances with anyone who calls me; I call them.
- And any numbers your credit card companies might be calling from. See banks.
In short, there is no reason for me to answer unknown numbers on my mobile phone. FWIW, I'm from England, and we don't pay for receiving national mobile calls from any network, only international. We pay for making them, so it's not even a financial incentive to do this here. I just prefer it that way.
To make any hard drive unreadable to anyone outside of No Such Acronym-style agencies, flip the disk over and pull off the controller board. Snap it in half.
Congratulations. You've just spent 20 seconds rendering the drive unusable to anyone without access to the components of the exact same model hard drive you have, right down to the fabrication run (different runs can use different components, making the controller board useless for other runs). It's faster than software solutions e.g. dd, DBAN etc and safer / less work / more cost effective than physical destruction e.g. chipping, punching, melting etc. The cost of sourcing parts and repairing / reproducing the board will almost certainly exceed the budget of all but your most direct competitors, or the government. If they worry you, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd0 for working media, take an orbital sander to the platters of non-working disks (face shield and filtered air supply mandatory).
Oh sweet jesus, my sincere apologies for the travesty above. Proof reading is obviously a skill I need to work on.
I did this just this week, but with floppy disks. I keep three neodymium magnets stuck to the heating pipe on the other side of the room, with a piece of cardboard folded around them to form a handle. I tried one disk with readable data before and after: Data readable before exposure, "The disk is not formatted" afterwards. I waved the magnet over the disk two or three times, and it was all gone.
I've not done this with a hard drive yet (Health and safety might be a bid annoyed at 7200rpm bare metal disks on my desk). I expect the same results.
I did this just this week, but with floppy drives. I keep three stuck to the heating pipe on the other side of the room, with a piece of cardboard folded around them to form a handle. I tried one disk with readable data before and after: Data before, "The disk is not formatted". I waved the magnet over the disk two or three times, and it was all gone.
I've not done this with a hard drive yet (Health and safety might be a bid annoyed at 7200rpm bare metal disks on my desk). I expect the same results.
You may not use Facebook, but that doesn't mean you're not on it. You may be in a picture, or mentioned in a comment somewhere by a friend. You can be tagged, at which point it's your full name, picture, (time-dependent) location, the activity you were engaged in (therefore hobbies or social activities), you are linked with others tagged in that photo and their hobbies, religions, political affiliations, relationships. Someone could mention that you were at the office party, at which point they know you work for the same company as $FBuser.
Don't assume that because you didn't create a profile yourself that Facebook doesn't have one anyway.
This happens across all industries, not just IT. Cars which have 70, 90, and 120 hp variants often only require a new ECM mapping. There's an old model HP plotter in which, if you hold a certain set of keys at boot up and short a couple of pins, can be changed between monochrome and CMYK. That's no software change at all; It's all already within the machine when sold as monochrome, and you pay for the upgrade to colour.
As usual, the technical community will figure out how to get this functionality working or disabled, depending on motivation, and nothing will change at all. The only people who will lose out are the regular Joe home user (who won't care) and the ill-informed buyer (who will pay for the top-line model with the features we can get by hacking the damn thing).
Calling my wife a whore? Firstly, I'm not married. If I were, though, I wouldn't mind at all. I feel very secure in my relationship with my girlfriend, therefore I know you to be wrong. As for the insult, I simply don't care what a random person on the street thinks of me. Your opinion is worth ever so slightly more than nothing.
Regarding entering my house, I'd probably detain you until I could hand you over to the police. It is a reasonable assumption that a person entering another person's house uninvited is there to commit an offence of some kind, typically one which would cause personal injury or loss or destruction of property.
Regarding the analogy itself; False analogy. The forum is open to any and all, like a community centre. My home is invitation only. If you are invited to my house and you are abusive, I will moderate your activities by kicking you the fuck out. If you are at an open house, you would be free to act inappropriately until your actions were deemed anti-social and against the law, at which point you have a whole new problem.
They've done the same thing in the UK, only the time allocated to discuss the content of petitions is shared with others, so no time is actually given to the petitions themselves.
Our policies help made these problems, not the people who were stuck because of the policies.
Those people were stuck because they injected an addictive narcotic into themselves. I don't know of anybody outside of anecdotes regarding forced prostitution who was forcibly injected with heroin. Yes, our policies regarding prohibition were demonstrably ineffective and possibly harmful, but you can't seriously be suggesting that it is our fault that junkies contracted blood-born diseases. The only person they have to blame for that is themselves.
The most obvious ways would be that he was caught on CCTV at the premises where the attack originated, for instance a library or coffee shop / internet cafe. If their systems are poorly secured, it's entirely possible the attach was launched from somewhere like that.
This is why I quietly laugh at all the folks who say they'd do their torrenting / hacking from a coffee shop. Timestamped logs + CCTV footage + credit card receipts = arrests.
Fuck everybody who uses that word. It belongs in the marketing buzzword incinerator with "thought-shower", "synergy", "pro-active", and anything "in the cloud".
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Thanks for an informative post on âoe the topicâ. I was looking for the information and researching on it when I stumbled upon your post. Thanks again
Hey there, link spammer!
By default, all URL's on Slashdot have the attribute "rel=nofollow" meaning that web spiders won't follow the links for the purpose of ranking in search engines.
What it DOES do, however, is ensure that your spam URL www dot efortesolutions dot com makes its way into my DNS shitlist, never to be resolved by anyone inside my organisation again. Furthermore, you're supposed to replace " the topic" with the actual topic of the post. Way to go, douchebag!
Patent troll "losses" = MAFIAA "potential sales"
Imaginary profit making made real by kangaroo courts and parasitic lawyers.
Replying to an AC, but hey, I have a little time to burn.
Thanks for the clarification of the likely employment status of the officer. I'm not sure if you're supposed to be somehow protecting other non-police force security officers somehow by making the distinction, or dragging down the already sullied name of "police officer" by including this barely literate individual within that group. Either way, I don't think my assessment of their demeanour was unfair; They fail at basic English comprehension. I'm surprised s/he was capable of filling in the application form.
Regarding your second point, ad hominim and non sequitur; I am not an asshole, I have never met any campus security and therefore would not generalise about them (having referred to only the one in question in my post), and I don't see a cause / effect relationship between my opinion of the officer's obvious lack of basic language skills as being a cause for their bitterness.
Ok, thanks for that clarification.
I've never seen Firefly (although I've heard good things, mean to check it out) so all I have to go on is the quoted wording. In and of itself, it is clearly not a threat of any kind based upon even the most cursory of examinations. When taking into account the quoted character's personality it may take on new meaning, but that isn't clear from the poster.
Who'da thunk that a failed mall-cop would screw up something as simple as english comprehension, eh? I've never heard that quote before, yet even I can see that it's essentially saying that the person will only kill another person if they are presenting an immediate and credible threat to said person's life. HURRR DURRR, that's the only time it's legal, and they'd better have the pistol to your head and their finger on the trigger for you to react like that.
Someone send that guy back to kindergarten so he can learn to understand a sentence properly.
... some sort of autobot making threats demanding money...
No way, man! That sounds like Decepticon behaviour to me.
- Just be sure to add all the local hospitals to your contacts
If someone I know is in hospital, I will know about it through other means. If they have my mobile, they have my home number too.
- And the city jail. And county. And any local police department numbers.
The same applies for the police.
- And all your cow-orkers if you're unfortunate enough to be on-call at work.
If I am on call, I have a work-provided phone. I answer all calls to that phone, as I'm not paying anyway.
- And your bank(s).
My bank does not call me; They send letters. I do not discuss anything do with with my finances with anyone who calls me; I call them.
- And any numbers your credit card companies might be calling from.
See banks.
In short, there is no reason for me to answer unknown numbers on my mobile phone. FWIW, I'm from England, and we don't pay for receiving national mobile calls from any network, only international. We pay for making them, so it's not even a financial incentive to do this here. I just prefer it that way.
As someone who has no depth perception, I've had the reasons why explained to me pretty thoroughly.
Agent 1BDI, is that you?!
To make any hard drive unreadable to anyone outside of No Such Acronym-style agencies, flip the disk over and pull off the controller board. Snap it in half.
Congratulations. You've just spent 20 seconds rendering the drive unusable to anyone without access to the components of the exact same model hard drive you have, right down to the fabrication run (different runs can use different components, making the controller board useless for other runs). It's faster than software solutions e.g. dd, DBAN etc and safer / less work / more cost effective than physical destruction e.g. chipping, punching, melting etc. The cost of sourcing parts and repairing / reproducing the board will almost certainly exceed the budget of all but your most direct competitors, or the government. If they worry you, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd0 for working media, take an orbital sander to the platters of non-working disks (face shield and filtered air supply mandatory).
Oh sweet jesus, my sincere apologies for the travesty above. Proof reading is obviously a skill I need to work on.
I did this just this week, but with floppy disks. I keep three neodymium magnets stuck to the heating pipe on the other side of the room, with a piece of cardboard folded around them to form a handle. I tried one disk with readable data before and after: Data readable before exposure, "The disk is not formatted" afterwards. I waved the magnet over the disk two or three times, and it was all gone.
I've not done this with a hard drive yet (Health and safety might be a bid annoyed at 7200rpm bare metal disks on my desk). I expect the same results.
I did this just this week, but with floppy drives. I keep three stuck to the heating pipe on the other side of the room, with a piece of cardboard folded around them to form a handle. I tried one disk with readable data before and after: Data before, "The disk is not formatted". I waved the magnet over the disk two or three times, and it was all gone.
I've not done this with a hard drive yet (Health and safety might be a bid annoyed at 7200rpm bare metal disks on my desk). I expect the same results.
So Long Farewell Avidazen Goodbye
Auf wiedersehen. It's german ;)
We already do. It's called a Whitelist.
Tim Minchin is a comedian, and in this case he is also wrong.
Science provides the "how", religion provides the "why". The two are orthogonal.
You may not use Facebook, but that doesn't mean you're not on it. You may be in a picture, or mentioned in a comment somewhere by a friend. You can be tagged, at which point it's your full name, picture, (time-dependent) location, the activity you were engaged in (therefore hobbies or social activities), you are linked with others tagged in that photo and their hobbies, religions, political affiliations, relationships. Someone could mention that you were at the office party, at which point they know you work for the same company as $FBuser.
Don't assume that because you didn't create a profile yourself that Facebook doesn't have one anyway.
This happens across all industries, not just IT. Cars which have 70, 90, and 120 hp variants often only require a new ECM mapping. There's an old model HP plotter in which, if you hold a certain set of keys at boot up and short a couple of pins, can be changed between monochrome and CMYK. That's no software change at all; It's all already within the machine when sold as monochrome, and you pay for the upgrade to colour.
As usual, the technical community will figure out how to get this functionality working or disabled, depending on motivation, and nothing will change at all. The only people who will lose out are the regular Joe home user (who won't care) and the ill-informed buyer (who will pay for the top-line model with the features we can get by hacking the damn thing).
Calling my wife a whore? Firstly, I'm not married. If I were, though, I wouldn't mind at all. I feel very secure in my relationship with my girlfriend, therefore I know you to be wrong. As for the insult, I simply don't care what a random person on the street thinks of me. Your opinion is worth ever so slightly more than nothing.
:)
Regarding entering my house, I'd probably detain you until I could hand you over to the police. It is a reasonable assumption that a person entering another person's house uninvited is there to commit an offence of some kind, typically one which would cause personal injury or loss or destruction of property.
Regarding the analogy itself; False analogy. The forum is open to any and all, like a community centre. My home is invitation only. If you are invited to my house and you are abusive, I will moderate your activities by kicking you the fuck out. If you are at an open house, you would be free to act inappropriately until your actions were deemed anti-social and against the law, at which point you have a whole new problem.
Hope this helps
They've done the same thing in the UK, only the time allocated to discuss the content of petitions is shared with others, so no time is actually given to the petitions themselves.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/committee_cannot_debate_epetitions_without_more_time/
Our policies help made these problems, not the people who were stuck because of the policies.
Those people were stuck because they injected an addictive narcotic into themselves. I don't know of anybody outside of anecdotes regarding forced prostitution who was forcibly injected with heroin. Yes, our policies regarding prohibition were demonstrably ineffective and possibly harmful, but you can't seriously be suggesting that it is our fault that junkies contracted blood-born diseases. The only person they have to blame for that is themselves.
The most obvious ways would be that he was caught on CCTV at the premises where the attack originated, for instance a library or coffee shop / internet cafe. If their systems are poorly secured, it's entirely possible the attach was launched from somewhere like that.
This is why I quietly laugh at all the folks who say they'd do their torrenting / hacking from a coffee shop. Timestamped logs + CCTV footage + credit card receipts = arrests.
This tactic is so ubiquitous even kids know about it.
"If you want a puppy, ask for a horse."
Fuck everybody who uses that word. It belongs in the marketing buzzword incinerator with "thought-shower", "synergy", "pro-active", and anything "in the cloud".
I stand corrected!
:)
I'm not sure if I should be dismayed or glad that there are people in the world far more nerdy than me
Oh no! How ever will they find this paranoid recluse!
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