Senator John Cornyn, in TFA: "While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children,"
If your goal is to keep "innocent children" safe, don't let them go down to the playground where the axe murderers, pederasts, and drug addicts hang out.
Innocence imposes isolation. You want the kids to be educated, they lose their innocence.
Gouda is only tough because of the wax on the outside, IIRC. The cheese it self is fairly soft and melty. For resilient cheese, I think you need to look towards your 3 to 5 year cheddars and similar.
Well, yeah. If you don't trust Google to not be evil, don't use any facets of Google. Don't install or otherwise use their stuff on your X.
Same goes for Microsoft, Ubuntu, Debian, Novell, Sun, SCO, Electronic Arts, Sony...
I have a personal theory that many people stopped considering Ford cars about the time that a chunk of the UI came from Microsoft. No data to back it up, of course, but I wouldn't want Microsoft Sync in my car... and GASP now Ford is in trouble, because people don't seem to want to buy their cars...
Mainstream media, from now on, you must not try and explain things you don't understand to people who also won't understand them, lest those people get interested in things.
Yes, the article could have been better. To the "average person", it's probably pretty neat to learn that the people down at the college put some stuff together, and talked to those nice folks on the space station.
I think that all the national radio clubs will agree that showing the general public that people still play radio is probably a good thing... a "We are here!" a la Horton Hears a Who is more likely to get a new person interested than an hour long lecture on E-Skip.
I believe that lesson 1 in writing class was "Know your audience". It seems to ring a bell here... the typical reader of the article is more likely to know nothing about radio ("wow! I had no idea you could just go to the store and get a radio and talk to space!"), rather than an RF engineer curious about what kind of mixers and amplifiers they put together, why they happened to use that particular MMIC, which software they used to lay out the striplines on the PCB to connect all the pieces, if they came up with some novel interstage coupling technique based on memristors...
Sure, it'd be cooler if they etched their own circuit boards, mined and refined their own copper wires, and then grew their own silicon for the final amplifier transistors (or at least built their own vacuum tubes), but it looks like these are a few people with no experience who said "We wanna talk to space", and then did it.
I agree that by the standards of the radio amateur community, this is "no big deal", but by comparison to their peers who are sitting around and playing with their Wii's, this is a pretty good step forward.
Being able to build an antenna is a relevant, practical skill in the radio world. They're exposed to the weather, they break, they need repair (or replacement) from time to time.
At work, I hit up rinkworks namegen , then do a google search on each term to make sure it's not a common (nor offensive) word in some other language, and that's the name of the actual machine. Machine then gets a logical DNS name based on function (e.g. the server hatrakos is there to run nagios, so there's a DNS alias "nagios" out there for it, as well as "hatrakos").
At home, someone was a fan of Chobits (manga) when the last round of laptops got purchased, so they're all variants on the name "Plum" (the name of a portable computer) ("Sumomo" (Japanese), "Ameixa" (Portugese)).
Before that, we wanted to defer naming a server at the house, so it's still called "later".
And yet every few weeks, we hear of another dumbass getting indicted because his CP collection was found.
I'll stipulate that he's probably not a/. reader at all, and certainly not a regular reader.
It's conceivable that one of us might, as "the resident nerd", get handed a drive, and told "uhh, make sure that gets completely erased, so that, uhh, nobody could read it".
What's it worth to you to have the data not be recovered? That's the real question here.
If a static pattern wipe will take about an hour and a half, and that's "good enough", great. If you're willing to invest a few days in running dban on the thing, that's better.
If you're willing to pull out a welding torch and reduce the drive to a smoking ingot, well, you're just about paranoid enough.
It's two parallel questions, really: -what is the data worth to you? -what is it worth to you to keep anyone else from getting the data?
Yeah, that way you'll have a lot of time to look for a new job.
If they're abusing you by taking away your time off, you need to be looking anyway.
From time to time, I get called by work when I'm not there. They never demand that I show up to bail them out, but sometimes it's easier to go in than to talk someone else through the fix. As soon as they demand that I show up, then I count my travel time as time worked. Seems to work for all of us.
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Senator John Cornyn, in TFA: "While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children,"
If your goal is to keep "innocent children" safe, don't let them go down to the playground where the axe murderers, pederasts, and drug addicts hang out.
Innocence imposes isolation. You want the kids to be educated, they lose their innocence.
Anonymous communications have an important place in our political and social discourse... or is this the end of the first amendment?
Can't. It's Monday. No cheezburgers.
people don't believe me when I tell them all this new-fangled technology is held together by duct-tape and bailing wire
If only it were that reliable... my duct tape patches and bailing wire repairs typically hold for a decade.
I, like the citizens of Precipice, am willing to forego videophone service, so long as the bandwidth is there.
999-999-9999....
/one ticket. one way. Hell. Aisle seat, please.
Shocking. People with no income pay no income tax.
What's next, people without feet not buying shoes?
Gouda is only tough because of the wax on the outside, IIRC. The cheese it self is fairly soft and melty. For resilient cheese, I think you need to look towards your 3 to 5 year cheddars and similar.
Well, yeah. If you don't trust Google to not be evil, don't use any facets of Google. Don't install or otherwise use their stuff on your X.
Same goes for Microsoft, Ubuntu, Debian, Novell, Sun, SCO, Electronic Arts, Sony...
I have a personal theory that many people stopped considering Ford cars about the time that a chunk of the UI came from Microsoft. No data to back it up, of course, but I wouldn't want Microsoft Sync in my car... and GASP now Ford is in trouble, because people don't seem to want to buy their cars...
Googling into someone's bedsheets and/or underwear and/or hot tub?
What, you've never played with the hot tub imaging feature on Google Earth?
Depends on which government issued it. For instance, if it's from Zimbabwe, you could wipe with it in the washroom, and nothing of value was lost...
If you're concerned about people doing things on your X, don't let them use your X.
Where X is:
Pretty basic trust issues here, folks. If you don't trust someone, don't let them use your stuff.
Windows 2000 came in at least 3 flavours... or are you forgetting "Professional" and "Server"? (Yes, they're all about the same.)
Which is the version that won't randomly crash?
Fair enough.
Mainstream media, from now on, you must not try and explain things you don't understand to people who also won't understand them, lest those people get interested in things.
Yes, the article could have been better. To the "average person", it's probably pretty neat to learn that the people down at the college put some stuff together, and talked to those nice folks on the space station.
I think that all the national radio clubs will agree that showing the general public that people still play radio is probably a good thing... a "We are here!" a la Horton Hears a Who is more likely to get a new person interested than an hour long lecture on E-Skip.
I believe that lesson 1 in writing class was "Know your audience". It seems to ring a bell here... the typical reader of the article is more likely to know nothing about radio ("wow! I had no idea you could just go to the store and get a radio and talk to space!"), rather than an RF engineer curious about what kind of mixers and amplifiers they put together, why they happened to use that particular MMIC, which software they used to lay out the striplines on the PCB to connect all the pieces, if they came up with some novel interstage coupling technique based on memristors...
Lots of people buy transceivers.
Lots of people buy rotors and controllers.
At least they claim to have built the antenna...
Sure, it'd be cooler if they etched their own circuit boards, mined and refined their own copper wires, and then grew their own silicon for the final amplifier transistors (or at least built their own vacuum tubes), but it looks like these are a few people with no experience who said "We wanna talk to space", and then did it.
I agree that by the standards of the radio amateur community, this is "no big deal", but by comparison to their peers who are sitting around and playing with their Wii's, this is a pretty good step forward.
Being able to build an antenna is a relevant, practical skill in the radio world. They're exposed to the weather, they break, they need repair (or replacement) from time to time.
Not really. It's pretty easy to design and build a VHF transceiver that will allow you to talk to people on the ISS.
Oh? Have you?
QSL card, or it didn't happen.
At work, I hit up rinkworks namegen , then do a google search on each term to make sure it's not a common (nor offensive) word in some other language, and that's the name of the actual machine. Machine then gets a logical DNS name based on function (e.g. the server hatrakos is there to run nagios, so there's a DNS alias "nagios" out there for it, as well as "hatrakos").
At home, someone was a fan of Chobits (manga) when the last round of laptops got purchased, so they're all variants on the name "Plum" (the name of a portable computer) ("Sumomo" (Japanese), "Ameixa" (Portugese)).
Before that, we wanted to defer naming a server at the house, so it's still called "later".
Perpare?
And there's no possible way that Stimpy would be stupid enough to press the beautiful, shiny button - the jolly, candy-like button.
and nothing of value was lost?
Latency enabled.
And yet every few weeks, we hear of another dumbass getting indicted because his CP collection was found.
I'll stipulate that he's probably not a /. reader at all, and certainly not a regular reader.
It's conceivable that one of us might, as "the resident nerd", get handed a drive, and told "uhh, make sure that gets completely erased, so that, uhh, nobody could read it".
What's it worth to you to have the data not be recovered? That's the real question here.
If a static pattern wipe will take about an hour and a half, and that's "good enough", great. If you're willing to invest a few days in running dban on the thing, that's better.
If you're willing to pull out a welding torch and reduce the drive to a smoking ingot, well, you're just about paranoid enough.
It's two parallel questions, really:
-what is the data worth to you?
-what is it worth to you to keep anyone else from getting the data?
Windows isn't ready for the desktop, either. It's just easier to find support.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/14/2317204
Really? You couldn't find that? 20 seconds. Really?
Yeah, that way you'll have a lot of time to look for a new job.
If they're abusing you by taking away your time off, you need to be looking anyway.
From time to time, I get called by work when I'm not there. They never demand that I show up to bail them out, but sometimes it's easier to go in than to talk someone else through the fix. As soon as they demand that I show up, then I count my travel time as time worked. Seems to work for all of us.