Artificial scarcity does NOT promote science and the useful arts! Let's pray our lawmakers eventually legislate a way for IP rights holders to profit from their creations without creating artificial scarcity. This philosophy has caused countless deaths due to its affects on generic drugs.
Bah. I've had to be RE-Xrayed because the doc I was at didn't have access to the an X-ray done on me in the same spot only shortly before. That's expensive and unsafe.
Also, please please be more specific as to why you think my privacy will be lost. There's a black market for credit card numbers, not for your medicine--No motivation to hack your records and make them available.
I thought it went without saying that businesses pay some tax to the society. One might argue that income taxes on employees are entirely sufficient to suit that requirement, but at any rate, a private business is private property as much as anything else--subject to law and taxes, but certainly NOT making decisions based on what serves the state. That's fucking slavery.
There is no black market for your medical history. Nobody gives a crap.
I am confident my healthcare will be better if, no matter which hospital or ER I go to, my doctor can have immediate access to test results, X-rays, and other useful information. I don't carry that information with me when I travel, and I sometimes get sick when I travel... this will save lives.
Your little rant about the fact that doctors make mistakes is entirely unrelated to this. With paper or digital records, they will still make mistakes. But with digital, there will be fewer mistakes due to lack of information.
You're out of your skull. A shareholder is a partial owner of the company's money, as he is a partial owner of the company. As a shareholder, I want the company to pay me my money in the form of dividends. I'm not sure why that confuses you so much. You must be a silicon valley CEO if you don't understand that shareholders are the ones who own the companies.
Sorry, but L4D runs beautifully at 1920x1200 resolution. Smooth graphics always look better than unsmooth graphics. I don't care that a screenshot from Crysis looks good if it's jerky.
You are correct. Install firebug, and watch the net chart it generates. The page will load, then you will wait another second or so before google-analytics loads and you can actually use your browser.
Um... sound, video, and plenty of other stuff doesn't work on Windows immediately upon installation. I always have to spend HOURS hunting for drivers, installing patches, installing Flash, Adobe Reader, etc., and rebooting, rebooting, rebooting before a Windows machine is running properly.
My experience with Ubuntu is quite the opposite. With the exception of Flash, Ubuntu just works from the get-go. It is light-years ahead of Windows in this respect.
I'm curious what country or ideology you are from? I'm baffled you would think a privately-owned business would exist for any other reason than to serve its owners. That's such a fundamentally obvious statement... so basic...
The specific implementation is: Checkpoing disk encryption with Windows Integrated Login and pre-boot authentication disabled. I know for a fact that this is widely deployed in very large organizations, and that it can be bypassed with memory alteration attack (to get around Windows login).
WIL is snake-oil. It's not encryption. Where is the crypt key stored? That's right, on the damn hard disk, protected by nothing but the power button to kick of the decryption. 1-bit encryption. You press power and the disk decrypts with no password required. You then get the Windows login screen, which can be bypassed by memory alteration--using firewire DMA or, in this case, virtualization to breeze by.
And the salesguys sell it to management as being SO EASY for users, they don't even know it's there... then when the "trained security professional" says "this is a scam, we need real pre-boot passphrase authentication" management says "that's not what we bought, make it work how the sales guy showed us."
Not with Checkpoint WIL. It's not even real encryption, just obfuscation. You press power, some little bootloader de-obfuscates the drive (with NO PASSWORD ENTRY REQUIRED!) and you get the windows login screen, which can be bypassed by fiddling with memory.
Naive assumptions? Ha! You clearly have no actual experience in IT security.
Stolen laptops are the #1 cause of these incredibly expensive data breach notifications. In the real world, they are grabbed from the car and make their way to the black market. That's the primary threat being protected against with disk encryption, unless we are talking about military secrets.
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Both game playing and language processing are considered problems that full under the domain "AI."
Well, I was thinking about the Mexicans who prepare my burritos at Chipotle. The food is cooked before they handle it. But cannibalism works, too.
Finally, a use for margaritas.
It's OK though. All you have to do is stand in a corner and elbow the zombies repeatedly. They won't be able to hurt you then.
Does food irradiation kill viruses? If so, does anyone here know the names of any companies that produce food irradiators?
Exactly. Copyright and patent law both rely on artificial scarcity.
Artificial scarcity does NOT promote science and the useful arts! Let's pray our lawmakers eventually legislate a way for IP rights holders to profit from their creations without creating artificial scarcity. This philosophy has caused countless deaths due to its affects on generic drugs.
"I suppose you think money is value, too?" ...
"let me tell you about my personal lord and savior, ron paul"
sorry, kid, i'm not going to give you a lecture about what value means. i've wasted my breath on all the other 6th graders.
They sell it with this feature/misconfiguration.
Bah. I've had to be RE-Xrayed because the doc I was at didn't have access to the an X-ray done on me in the same spot only shortly before. That's expensive and unsafe.
Also, please please be more specific as to why you think my privacy will be lost. There's a black market for credit card numbers, not for your medicine--No motivation to hack your records and make them available.
I thought it went without saying that businesses pay some tax to the society. One might argue that income taxes on employees are entirely sufficient to suit that requirement, but at any rate, a private business is private property as much as anything else--subject to law and taxes, but certainly NOT making decisions based on what serves the state. That's fucking slavery.
There is no black market for your medical history. Nobody gives a crap.
I am confident my healthcare will be better if, no matter which hospital or ER I go to, my doctor can have immediate access to test results, X-rays, and other useful information. I don't carry that information with me when I travel, and I sometimes get sick when I travel... this will save lives.
Your little rant about the fact that doctors make mistakes is entirely unrelated to this. With paper or digital records, they will still make mistakes. But with digital, there will be fewer mistakes due to lack of information.
It was a magazine I used to buy hardware from (using their 800 number) before egghead/newegg.
You're out of your skull. A shareholder is a partial owner of the company's money, as he is a partial owner of the company. As a shareholder, I want the company to pay me my money in the form of dividends. I'm not sure why that confuses you so much. You must be a silicon valley CEO if you don't understand that shareholders are the ones who own the companies.
Sorry, but L4D runs beautifully at 1920x1200 resolution. Smooth graphics always look better than unsmooth graphics. I don't care that a screenshot from Crysis looks good if it's jerky.
Who said anything about losing money? Did you even read the conversation?
And they need to get on that, because I really want to use snowman and jolly roger unicode symbols in my posts!
You are correct. Install firebug, and watch the net chart it generates. The page will load, then you will wait another second or so before google-analytics loads and you can actually use your browser.
Um... sound, video, and plenty of other stuff doesn't work on Windows immediately upon installation. I always have to spend HOURS hunting for drivers, installing patches, installing Flash, Adobe Reader, etc., and rebooting, rebooting, rebooting before a Windows machine is running properly.
My experience with Ubuntu is quite the opposite. With the exception of Flash, Ubuntu just works from the get-go. It is light-years ahead of Windows in this respect.
I'm curious what country or ideology you are from? I'm baffled you would think a privately-owned business would exist for any other reason than to serve its owners. That's such a fundamentally obvious statement... so basic...
https://secure.dshield.org/diary.html?storyid=4133
The specific implementation is: Checkpoing disk encryption with Windows Integrated Login and pre-boot authentication disabled. I know for a fact that this is widely deployed in very large organizations, and that it can be bypassed with memory alteration attack (to get around Windows login).
http://www.infosecblog.org/2008/03/firewire-attack-against-points.html
WIL is snake-oil. It's not encryption. Where is the crypt key stored? That's right, on the damn hard disk, protected by nothing but the power button to kick of the decryption. 1-bit encryption. You press power and the disk decrypts with no password required. You then get the Windows login screen, which can be bypassed by memory alteration--using firewire DMA or, in this case, virtualization to breeze by.
And the salesguys sell it to management as being SO EASY for users, they don't even know it's there... then when the "trained security professional" says "this is a scam, we need real pre-boot passphrase authentication" management says "that's not what we bought, make it work how the sales guy showed us."
Not with Checkpoint WIL. It's not even real encryption, just obfuscation. You press power, some little bootloader de-obfuscates the drive (with NO PASSWORD ENTRY REQUIRED!) and you get the windows login screen, which can be bypassed by fiddling with memory.
http://www.infosecblog.org/2008/03/firewire-attack-against-points.html
That doesn't stop them from selling it to PHBs as encryption, though.
Naive assumptions? Ha! You clearly have no actual experience in IT security.
Stolen laptops are the #1 cause of these incredibly expensive data breach notifications. In the real world, they are grabbed from the car and make their way to the black market. That's the primary threat being protected against with disk encryption, unless we are talking about military secrets.
Wasn't there supposed to be a Trek MMOG? I remember hearing a lot about that about a year ago, but nothing recently.