Oh that would work, but you can't encrypt it with just any algorithm. You couldn't use AES, TwoFish, or even BlowFish. I recommend to my clients that they encrypt everything with 2048-bit WOOOSH.
No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
You are almost right, but not entirely. Some drive firmware (as I understand it) will detect failing sectors of the disk and mark them as "bad." Your software won't even see them, as this is done at the firmware level. This means your data will still be there on the disk, even after a zero-write.
an oft-stated aim of the US health system is the improvement of the health of "all people, and especially those at greater risk of health disparities."
[citation needed]
The "US health system" has a stated aim? I thought the aim was to maximize the profits of the insurance companies, which we know can only be done by denying health care to those at greater risk. Where, exactly, is this stated?
US government contracts are starting to require IPv6 support. This is the main reason I'm seeing for IPv6 adoption. If it weren't for the government, we would all be keeping our heads in the sand until the internet starts slowly failing and Goldman Sachs starts selling remaining IPv4 netblocks to speculators.
Yeah, I'm wondering if the article was generated by some sort of AI in an attempt to take the human costs out of blogging. Google's cloud product is, in fact, called App Engine.
I'm developing a JRuby app for Google App Engine. I'm doing it because as a lone developer, I don't have to worry about anything but my code. I will never have to wake up to troubleshoot a network problem, OS issue, Apache oddity. I won't have to hire networking, DBA, or systems administration staff. And if my app hits off big, I won't have to re-engineer anything to make it scale. It will scale automatically.
I've played the role of network engineer, DBA, and sysadmin in the past. Now I can focus on my application.
That said, appengine is certainly not for all sorts of apps. It only supports a subset of SQL (no joins), I'm sure it won't meet the requirements for payment card processing or anything like that, and my APIs are limited. But for a good chunk of web apps, developing for the google cloud has huge advantages.
Well, in that case they would be "charging" by holding your money for several days and collecting interest (which is a very real opportunity cost to you).
Financial transactions always have cost, because there's always a chance of something going wrong and some expensive legal procedure following. Also, they must obviously pay for their operations. I don't understand how someone could expect a financial transaction service to be free.
Our current culture considers common human behaviors (especially sexual behaviors) to be taboo. We value our privacy because it allows us to practice the taboo behaviors privately while abhorring them publicly (so we can all be part of the hateful, hypocritical mob).
Perhaps an end to privacy is a good thing. Perhaps the realization that everyone practices taboo behaviors will cause us to accept them, freeing ourselves from senseless guilt, hypocrisy, and shame.
No, that's not my definition at all. It is impossible to "break in" to a resource intended for public access. If you want to be a pedant, at least try to be accurate.
Yeah, I am confused by that, as well. Clinton did pot. Bush II was an alcoholic who also did coke. Obama is a smoker who did pot in his youth. What exactly is meant by that "the President never inhaled" statement?
And? A hack doesn't have to be "hard" to be a hack. As the word is popularly used today, breaking into a computer through nonobvious (to the average person) means is hacking.
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Did you even read the summary? They are intercepting authentication attempts and using the one time password (not "pad," you ninny).
Does anyone produce biometric sensors which digitally sign and timestamp your fingerprints?
Oh that would work, but you can't encrypt it with just any algorithm. You couldn't use AES, TwoFish, or even BlowFish. I recommend to my clients that they encrypt everything with 2048-bit WOOOSH.
No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
You are almost right, but not entirely. Some drive firmware (as I understand it) will detect failing sectors of the disk and mark them as "bad." Your software won't even see them, as this is done at the firmware level. This means your data will still be there on the disk, even after a zero-write.
How can you justify that cost? For $800, you could buy a netbook, a basic smart phone, plus hookers and blow.
The CDC is hardly "the US Health System".
[citation needed]
The "US health system" has a stated aim? I thought the aim was to maximize the profits of the insurance companies, which we know can only be done by denying health care to those at greater risk. Where, exactly, is this stated?
He's not an AI researcher. If the only AI he had available was that of a protocol droid, that's what he would use.
I can't tell whether this post is a joke or not.
That's nonsense. Where's SCO on that list? We all know SCO wrote a big part of the Linux kernel.
US government contracts are starting to require IPv6 support. This is the main reason I'm seeing for IPv6 adoption. If it weren't for the government, we would all be keeping our heads in the sand until the internet starts slowly failing and Goldman Sachs starts selling remaining IPv4 netblocks to speculators.
Yeah, I'm wondering if the article was generated by some sort of AI in an attempt to take the human costs out of blogging. Google's cloud product is, in fact, called App Engine.
I'm developing a JRuby app for Google App Engine. I'm doing it because as a lone developer, I don't have to worry about anything but my code. I will never have to wake up to troubleshoot a network problem, OS issue, Apache oddity. I won't have to hire networking, DBA, or systems administration staff. And if my app hits off big, I won't have to re-engineer anything to make it scale. It will scale automatically.
I've played the role of network engineer, DBA, and sysadmin in the past. Now I can focus on my application.
That said, appengine is certainly not for all sorts of apps. It only supports a subset of SQL (no joins), I'm sure it won't meet the requirements for payment card processing or anything like that, and my APIs are limited. But for a good chunk of web apps, developing for the google cloud has huge advantages.
Well, in that case they would be "charging" by holding your money for several days and collecting interest (which is a very real opportunity cost to you).
Financial transactions always have cost, because there's always a chance of something going wrong and some expensive legal procedure following. Also, they must obviously pay for their operations. I don't understand how someone could expect a financial transaction service to be free.
The spice must flow.
Plantronics? Bah. What Daniel needs is a proper bluetooth headset like this one: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/
Our current culture considers common human behaviors (especially sexual behaviors) to be taboo. We value our privacy because it allows us to practice the taboo behaviors privately while abhorring them publicly (so we can all be part of the hateful, hypocritical mob).
Perhaps an end to privacy is a good thing. Perhaps the realization that everyone practices taboo behaviors will cause us to accept them, freeing ourselves from senseless guilt, hypocrisy, and shame.
No, that's not my definition at all. It is impossible to "break in" to a resource intended for public access. If you want to be a pedant, at least try to be accurate.
Yeah, I am confused by that, as well. Clinton did pot. Bush II was an alcoholic who also did coke. Obama is a smoker who did pot in his youth. What exactly is meant by that "the President never inhaled" statement?
And? A hack doesn't have to be "hard" to be a hack. As the word is popularly used today, breaking into a computer through nonobvious (to the average person) means is hacking.
They broke out of a honeypot, discovered the available services on a private network, then found and exploited s service that was misconfigured.
Believe it or not, most hacks don't involve writing custom exploit code. They just require some work and the sense to know what you're looking for.
"True security" is a fantasy. No such thing exists, nor will it ever.
We should be concerned with balancing risk reduction with its cost. We should not be concerned with your silly fantasy.