But there is a free solution which is more like thermite.
Encryption is wrong for netbooks because the Atom is a slow, single-core chip. It really can't afford the extra overhead.
Encryption also won't do what the submitter asks: bricking the device.
But ATA passwords will do this! Sometimes called "drivelock," these are firmware passwords you type when powering on a disk. If it doesn't get the right password, the disk will refuse to cooperate. Recovering the data from such a disk requires expensive equipment that almost certainly isn't available or worth the effort to the common thief. This solution meets the submitters requirement of bricking the device, and it also keeps his data safe.
Disclaimer: There are many drives out there from major manufactures which have flawed ATA password implementations. Check and see if your HD is among the list of drives which are so flawed.
They block "unsupported" browsers not because they might not work, but because they might cause damage. Dell (or whoever this is) doesn't want to be sued because some incompatibility with Opera caused a "delete" button to be erroneously clicked, resulting in thousands in damages.
Can you explain what you mean by this? It seems like an absurd statement to me. There is no "special" sort of logical proposition known as "the negative" as far as I know.
Seriously, though, the best way to see a country is with a native girl at your side. Is there a book about how to hook up while traveling? That would be really useful.
[insert obligatory joke about slashdotters needing a similar book for use while at home]
It was originally worded as "an elementary school English class," and I hastily re-worded it. But I am willing to accept your criticism, as it does support my point;-)
Prepare them to be burger-flippers? What? Educationally-challenged juvenile criminals should be given access to the same education as everyone else so long as they do their homework and behave. If they continue to do otherwise, they should be removed from class so that those students who want an education can get it.
I can't believe you would think honest, hard-working, and motivated students should have their educations ruined in a vain attempt to make an intellectual of a criminal. Give the criminals a chance, and if they refuse to take it, putting them in separate classes is the only reasonable choice. Don't force them to be "burger flippers," but if they select that course for themselves, so be it. Society needs burgers, too.
This may be true: sticking the bad kids in with the good kids may improve the behavior of the bad kids. BUT BE WARNED! I was part of an educational experiment in which honors students (such as myself) were placed in an 6th-grade English class with, well, the criminal class.
I LEARNED NOTHING IN THAT CLASS! The teacher spent the whole time playing cop to stop the delinquents. Furthermore, sticking us in with them actually encouraged the good students to out-bad the bad students. It was a complete disaster.
For the good of this country, we need to concentrate on making sure our best students get the best education. This should be a higher priority than trying to make scientists out of juvenile criminals and bullies. Society doesn't need, and will never get 100% genius-status for all students, anyway. Attempts to make this happen will likely drag us all down.
Does nmap yet provide a way to update its OS fingerprints? This is the sort of thing that changes constantly, and I haven't found a good, automated way to do this, especially when using linux distribution-maintained nmap packages.
Being a maintenance programmer sucks. Designing is fun, and modern languages are far less tedious than their ancestors.
But bloody hell, if I can make six figures writing cobol, I'll grab myself a cobol book and quit this programming job. A sucky day job isn't so bad when it means you can retire a decade earlier than otherwise.
Sure, just send the most significant bits in a high-priority packet, and send the least significant bits in lower-priority packets. It seems so simple, it's hard to believe such a feature isn't supported in every audio and video codec.
The president doesn't write the budget. Congress does. Unless he told Congress he would veto any budget that doesn't cut SELA funding by 75%, you're blaming the wrong person.
You work on the helpdesk for the weather channel? Obviously you know more about this than the people who spent large amounts of time and money investigating the project.
Now if only I can find someone who runs cables at a hospital to tell me if I should continue to fund this cancer research project...
Getting a 32b flash player working on 64b Linux is usually done with a 46-line shell script (http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh) and its performance is naturally poor, as it is running on a non-native platform. The 64b flash player, on the other hand, crashes constantly.
You don't need perfect data for statistical analysis. Furthermore, it is wrong to assume that hospital employees will necessarily and perpetually do a very poor job of data input. The finance industry does an incredible job of tracking even fractions of pennies. With improved procedures, UIs, and/or incentives, the data could be collected far more accurately.
Hospitals with fully-computerized records will eventually have data like this. If 10 people come in with food poisoning in one day, and the hospital ask them where they have eaten in the past 48 hours, it doesn't take an amazing programmer to write an algorithm which identifies the dirty restaurant.
Similarly, with malaria, home or work addresses of patients would identify diseased areas with simple automated processing.
I'm traveling to India soon, and I would very much like to avoid the parts with malaria if I can. It would be useful to know that a large number of people in some neighborhood were diagnosed with malaria recently, especially when picking a hotel.
It would also be good to know recent parasite and food poisoning stats on a per-restaurant basis.
All of a sudden, the cellphones of everyone around you whoop with the "red alert" sound from Star Trek. You take your phone out of your pocket. "Swine Flu Reported Nearby" flashes on the red screen. Covering your mouth with your shirt, you and everyone else start running in all directions, spreading the flu immediately to the surrounding communities. The process repeats like the grand-finale of the fireworks display, until the deadly disease is evenly distributed throughout the world.
You can buy one but it will suck. It's about maps. My Tom Tom is one year old, and it already gets me into trouble because the maps on it are out of date. Tom Tom requires $10/month for their map update service. What crap!
On a smartphone, you get free access to current maps. Why would anyone pay Tom Tom's $10/month fee?
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But there is a free solution which is more like thermite.
Encryption is wrong for netbooks because the Atom is a slow, single-core chip. It really can't afford the extra overhead.
Encryption also won't do what the submitter asks: bricking the device.
But ATA passwords will do this! Sometimes called "drivelock," these are firmware passwords you type when powering on a disk. If it doesn't get the right password, the disk will refuse to cooperate. Recovering the data from such a disk requires expensive equipment that almost certainly isn't available or worth the effort to the common thief. This solution meets the submitters requirement of bricking the device, and it also keeps his data safe.
Disclaimer: There are many drives out there from major manufactures which have flawed ATA password implementations. Check and see if your HD is among the list of drives which are so flawed.
They block "unsupported" browsers not because they might not work, but because they might cause damage. Dell (or whoever this is) doesn't want to be sued because some incompatibility with Opera caused a "delete" button to be erroneously clicked, resulting in thousands in damages.
So, at the end of the day... blame the lawyers.
Can you explain what you mean by this? It seems like an absurd statement to me. There is no "special" sort of logical proposition known as "the negative" as far as I know.
Seriously, though, the best way to see a country is with a native girl at your side. Is there a book about how to hook up while traveling? That would be really useful.
[insert obligatory joke about slashdotters needing a similar book for use while at home]
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002458.html
It appears that is debatable.
It was originally worded as "an elementary school English class," and I hastily re-worded it. But I am willing to accept your criticism, as it does support my point ;-)
Prepare them to be burger-flippers? What? Educationally-challenged juvenile criminals should be given access to the same education as everyone else so long as they do their homework and behave. If they continue to do otherwise, they should be removed from class so that those students who want an education can get it.
I can't believe you would think honest, hard-working, and motivated students should have their educations ruined in a vain attempt to make an intellectual of a criminal. Give the criminals a chance, and if they refuse to take it, putting them in separate classes is the only reasonable choice. Don't force them to be "burger flippers," but if they select that course for themselves, so be it. Society needs burgers, too.
This may be true: sticking the bad kids in with the good kids may improve the behavior of the bad kids. BUT BE WARNED! I was part of an educational experiment in which honors students (such as myself) were placed in an 6th-grade English class with, well, the criminal class.
I LEARNED NOTHING IN THAT CLASS! The teacher spent the whole time playing cop to stop the delinquents. Furthermore, sticking us in with them actually encouraged the good students to out-bad the bad students. It was a complete disaster.
For the good of this country, we need to concentrate on making sure our best students get the best education. This should be a higher priority than trying to make scientists out of juvenile criminals and bullies. Society doesn't need, and will never get 100% genius-status for all students, anyway. Attempts to make this happen will likely drag us all down.
Does nmap yet provide a way to update its OS fingerprints? This is the sort of thing that changes constantly, and I haven't found a good, automated way to do this, especially when using linux distribution-maintained nmap packages.
When complaining about Firefox performance issues, always disable all addons to verify that the problem is, in fact, with Firefox itself.
I can say that Firefox is quite fast on my i7 with 12GB RAM and an Intel X25 Extrem SSD ;-)
Being a maintenance programmer sucks. Designing is fun, and modern languages are far less tedious than their ancestors.
But bloody hell, if I can make six figures writing cobol, I'll grab myself a cobol book and quit this programming job. A sucky day job isn't so bad when it means you can retire a decade earlier than otherwise.
OK, let me see if I get these blockquotes right.
"So what?" you ask.
So...
Follow the thread, little one. It will lead you to the answers you seek.
The 64b alpha Linux Flash player from Adobe Labs crashes about every ten minutes, bringing FireFox down with it. Supported? It's not even usable.
Adobe has yet to release a stable 64b Flash player for Linux. So Flash isn't a multiplatform wonder, either.
Sure, just send the most significant bits in a high-priority packet, and send the least significant bits in lower-priority packets. It seems so simple, it's hard to believe such a feature isn't supported in every audio and video codec.
The president doesn't write the budget. Congress does. Unless he told Congress he would veto any budget that doesn't cut SELA funding by 75%, you're blaming the wrong person.
You work on the helpdesk for the weather channel? Obviously you know more about this than the people who spent large amounts of time and money investigating the project.
Now if only I can find someone who runs cables at a hospital to tell me if I should continue to fund this cancer research project...
Getting a 32b flash player working on 64b Linux is usually done with a 46-line shell script (http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh) and its performance is naturally poor, as it is running on a non-native platform. The 64b flash player, on the other hand, crashes constantly.
If you think that's "easy" then you're daft.
You don't need perfect data for statistical analysis. Furthermore, it is wrong to assume that hospital employees will necessarily and perpetually do a very poor job of data input. The finance industry does an incredible job of tracking even fractions of pennies. With improved procedures, UIs, and/or incentives, the data could be collected far more accurately.
Hospitals with fully-computerized records will eventually have data like this. If 10 people come in with food poisoning in one day, and the hospital ask them where they have eaten in the past 48 hours, it doesn't take an amazing programmer to write an algorithm which identifies the dirty restaurant.
Similarly, with malaria, home or work addresses of patients would identify diseased areas with simple automated processing.
I'm traveling to India soon, and I would very much like to avoid the parts with malaria if I can. It would be useful to know that a large number of people in some neighborhood were diagnosed with malaria recently, especially when picking a hotel.
It would also be good to know recent parasite and food poisoning stats on a per-restaurant basis.
All of a sudden, the cellphones of everyone around you whoop with the "red alert" sound from Star Trek. You take your phone out of your pocket. "Swine Flu Reported Nearby" flashes on the red screen. Covering your mouth with your shirt, you and everyone else start running in all directions, spreading the flu immediately to the surrounding communities. The process repeats like the grand-finale of the fireworks display, until the deadly disease is evenly distributed throughout the world.
I think you're confused. Read the thread and you'll realize why your off-topic rant makes you sound like an idiot.
You can buy one but it will suck. It's about maps. My Tom Tom is one year old, and it already gets me into trouble because the maps on it are out of date. Tom Tom requires $10/month for their map update service. What crap!
On a smartphone, you get free access to current maps. Why would anyone pay Tom Tom's $10/month fee?
There is exactly one 64b Linux Flash player out there: Flash 10 Alpha. And it crashes all the time. So you're dead wrong. Don't spread misinformation.