I would like to get into computer forensics, but I'm afraid I would be spending all my time going after dirty old men, rather than prosecuting real crimes with real victims and damages. Worse than that, I'm afraid I would be forced to attempt to make cases against people who had no intention of downloading illegal content at all (does a 17year 11month old girl look any different from an 18 year old?).
So as someone who has worked in the industry, I ask you: is modern computer Forensics at all about prosecuting serious crime, or is it just playing porno police? What is your caseload like? The idea of having a hand in ruining someones life for looking at a picture of a sexually mature female just seems immoral to me, and I would want no hand in it.
True. IT will grow until it fills the need. But can a human's need ever be truly filled?
You and I can try to imagine what a completely-filled information demand would look like: the ability to immediately communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world despite differing languages using sight, sound, smell, and feel; the ability to have video games and other digital entertainment which are indistinguishable from reality; the ability to have any question about any part of humanity's combined knowledge answered instantly...
We can imagine what things will look like when that need is filled, but I suspect that as we move along, more needs will spring up which we can't anticipate... just as they always have...
If there's a limit to how far IT grows, it's a thousand years off at the earliest.
Holy crap! I love my Atom netbook... except when I'm playing video. If this tech works with most of the popular video player software (including Flash), then I can totally see myself buying an NVidia netbook.
With a BS in CS, you can exit college making $65k/year. What about a BS in biology? I don't have any stats in front of me, but I can say that the Bio majors I know didn't get anything at all like good jobs after graduating.
We need chainsaw neutrality. If a man walks into a hardware store wearing a hockey mask and a blood-soaked prison jumpsuit, and identifies himself as an axe-murdering serial killer; we should legally obligate store owners to sell that man a chainsaw.
Are you kidding? There already are bar-codes on things like driver's licenses. And they can be photographed and decoded by the person sitting next to you at the bar. Where is the outrage? "very dangerous" indeed.
RFID is a slightly-longer-range bar-code that doesn't require line-of-sight. But it would certainly be possible to use a digital camera or scanning lasers to do this same sort of thing to any visible bar-codes.
It doesn't really make sense to say RFID is "very dangerous" unless you have that same fear of bar-codes.
I like throwing the "correlation != causation" flag as much as the next guy, but this is the brain we're talking about. If you scramble the mental meat used for certain functions, it will affect the ability to perform those functions.
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Netbook is a computer optimized for getting on the net while mobile. Small size (for mobility) and low power (for longer battery).
If you have an optical drive, a large screen, or a fast (power-slurping) processor, you're not using a netbook. You're using a laptop.
Sorry, this one is just too funny to pass up. You called me an idiot again. But you also called 99.999+% of the human population idiots for not having extensive QA processes surrounding their personal electronic equipment. You have got to be, by far, the most undeservedly arrogant person I've corresponded with. Everyone is an idiot but you. Yeesh! It must be so difficult being you.
it's not even obvious they would bother to colonize the galaxy or communicate between planets.
Yes, it is, actually. One of the defining characteristics of life is the drive to perpetuate its own existence. This fundamental definition implies the drive to interstellar colonization, as risking your entire species existence on the hospitality of a single biosphere or even a single star is directly counter to the goal of species perpetuation.
"Not to bright are we? Only an idiot updates a system without a proper backup and knowing what the patches they are applying does."
Is that a joke? What percentage of computer users download every patch individually, test in thoroughly, and then deploy it to their personal computers only after careful analysis? Seriously, you're not even pretending to be telling the truth now. I'm done with you.
Ha! My ex is a lawyer in France, and I can assure you she works far far more than 35 hours per week. The standard work week is a fantasy. The French, in almost every case make significantly less money than their American counterparts.
They have a better social safety net. True. But overall, they are significantly poorer.
I'm sorry, but that's a fantastically dumb comment. You use linux? Your updates could delete your files. You use Windows? Your updates could delete your files. You use a Kindle? Same thing.
Furthermore, the Kindle can do DRM-free books in mobi format, too. That's not a selling point of your crusty T5.
It's not a web in the strictest sense, but the property in question--the ability to decide who you trust to identify other trustworthy entities--is available in both models.
Their standard of living has nothing to do with retail prices. What are you smoking? Retail prices are the result of manufacturing or import costs, plus the overhead imparted by regulatory compliance.
And having spent plenty of time in France and in the US, I really doubt they have a higher standard of living by any sane metric.
It's a double edged sword. Yes, there are some great EU market regulations (like standardized cellphone chargers), but there are some pretty terrible regulations, too. Many of the EU market regulations are extremely expensive to comply with. You would not be happy, I assure you, if prices at Fry's and Microcenter were as high as prices are at retail stores in France.
They are betting on the recession ending and tax revenues improving in the future. It's a fairly reasonable bet. And even if they lose, they can just buy their capital back from the bank at the foreclosure auction. It's not like there's going to be much competition in terms of bidders for the Arizona State Capital building.
The modern CA hierarchy IS a web of trust. You have the control over which CAs and even which individual certificates you trust. If you go with the default trust relationships provided by your browser or OS vendor, and you aren't satisfied, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Get a fast SSD and all your apps will start in the blink of an eye without memory-hogging quickstarters. Hell, even NetBeans loads in less than a second on my X25-E.
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I would like to get into computer forensics, but I'm afraid I would be spending all my time going after dirty old men, rather than prosecuting real crimes with real victims and damages. Worse than that, I'm afraid I would be forced to attempt to make cases against people who had no intention of downloading illegal content at all (does a 17year 11month old girl look any different from an 18 year old?).
So as someone who has worked in the industry, I ask you: is modern computer Forensics at all about prosecuting serious crime, or is it just playing porno police? What is your caseload like? The idea of having a hand in ruining someones life for looking at a picture of a sexually mature female just seems immoral to me, and I would want no hand in it.
True. IT will grow until it fills the need. But can a human's need ever be truly filled?
You and I can try to imagine what a completely-filled information demand would look like: the ability to immediately communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world despite differing languages using sight, sound, smell, and feel; the ability to have video games and other digital entertainment which are indistinguishable from reality; the ability to have any question about any part of humanity's combined knowledge answered instantly...
We can imagine what things will look like when that need is filled, but I suspect that as we move along, more needs will spring up which we can't anticipate... just as they always have...
If there's a limit to how far IT grows, it's a thousand years off at the earliest.
Holy crap! I love my Atom netbook... except when I'm playing video. If this tech works with most of the popular video player software (including Flash), then I can totally see myself buying an NVidia netbook.
With a BS in CS, you can exit college making $65k/year. What about a BS in biology? I don't have any stats in front of me, but I can say that the Bio majors I know didn't get anything at all like good jobs after graduating.
We need chainsaw neutrality. If a man walks into a hardware store wearing a hockey mask and a blood-soaked prison jumpsuit, and identifies himself as an axe-murdering serial killer; we should legally obligate store owners to sell that man a chainsaw.
/me hands krou a cup of coffee
I'll grant you that. But this is not a problem with RFID. It's a problem with some misapplications of it. RFID itself is a fantastic technology.
Are you kidding? There already are bar-codes on things like driver's licenses. And they can be photographed and decoded by the person sitting next to you at the bar. Where is the outrage? "very dangerous" indeed.
RFID is a slightly-longer-range bar-code that doesn't require line-of-sight. But it would certainly be possible to use a digital camera or scanning lasers to do this same sort of thing to any visible bar-codes.
It doesn't really make sense to say RFID is "very dangerous" unless you have that same fear of bar-codes.
I like throwing the "correlation != causation" flag as much as the next guy, but this is the brain we're talking about. If you scramble the mental meat used for certain functions, it will affect the ability to perform those functions.
Netbook is a computer optimized for getting on the net while mobile. Small size (for mobility) and low power (for longer battery).
If you have an optical drive, a large screen, or a fast (power-slurping) processor, you're not using a netbook. You're using a laptop.
Sorry, this one is just too funny to pass up. You called me an idiot again. But you also called 99.999+% of the human population idiots for not having extensive QA processes surrounding their personal electronic equipment. You have got to be, by far, the most undeservedly arrogant person I've corresponded with. Everyone is an idiot but you. Yeesh! It must be so difficult being you.
Yes, it is, actually. One of the defining characteristics of life is the drive to perpetuate its own existence. This fundamental definition implies the drive to interstellar colonization, as risking your entire species existence on the hospitality of a single biosphere or even a single star is directly counter to the goal of species perpetuation.
60% may be vulnerable, but it is a bald faced lie to say that 60% are preloaded with a rootkit.
"Not to bright are we? Only an idiot updates a system without a proper backup and knowing what the patches they are applying does."
Is that a joke? What percentage of computer users download every patch individually, test in thoroughly, and then deploy it to their personal computers only after careful analysis? Seriously, you're not even pretending to be telling the truth now. I'm done with you.
Ha! My ex is a lawyer in France, and I can assure you she works far far more than 35 hours per week. The standard work week is a fantasy. The French, in almost every case make significantly less money than their American counterparts.
They have a better social safety net. True. But overall, they are significantly poorer.
I'm sorry, but that's a fantastically dumb comment. You use linux? Your updates could delete your files. You use Windows? Your updates could delete your files. You use a Kindle? Same thing.
Furthermore, the Kindle can do DRM-free books in mobi format, too. That's not a selling point of your crusty T5.
So it looks like all your points are moot.
It's not a web in the strictest sense, but the property in question--the ability to decide who you trust to identify other trustworthy entities--is available in both models.
Their standard of living has nothing to do with retail prices. What are you smoking? Retail prices are the result of manufacturing or import costs, plus the overhead imparted by regulatory compliance.
And having spent plenty of time in France and in the US, I really doubt they have a higher standard of living by any sane metric.
It's a double edged sword. Yes, there are some great EU market regulations (like standardized cellphone chargers), but there are some pretty terrible regulations, too. Many of the EU market regulations are extremely expensive to comply with. You would not be happy, I assure you, if prices at Fry's and Microcenter were as high as prices are at retail stores in France.
Strong words. How much money are you willing to bet that Amazon will delete more Kindle books? I think you're all talk.
They are betting on the recession ending and tax revenues improving in the future. It's a fairly reasonable bet. And even if they lose, they can just buy their capital back from the bank at the foreclosure auction. It's not like there's going to be much competition in terms of bidders for the Arizona State Capital building.
I'm quite happy with my Kindle, and by Bezos' admission, we have seen the last of Amazon deleting pirated books.
The modern CA hierarchy IS a web of trust. You have the control over which CAs and even which individual certificates you trust. If you go with the default trust relationships provided by your browser or OS vendor, and you aren't satisfied, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Get a fast SSD and all your apps will start in the blink of an eye without memory-hogging quickstarters. Hell, even NetBeans loads in less than a second on my X25-E.