If you can't think of a reason we need it, and you keep it, then isn't that security theater?
I think it's quite arrogant to assume that if you can't figure out a reason, no one else can either. The guy is a usability expert not a security expert, that's where the alarm bells should go off.
If a malicious person can see your screen, than they are probably close enough that that can tap your cables, install hardware keyloggers, sniff your EMF, cold boot your RAM and grep it, do audio analysis of your typing and decipher your keystrokes, and etc.
***ing your passwords protects against a very small hole....the situation where someone is allowed to see your screen but is searched to make sure they have no monitoring equipment, has the keyboard kept out of site, and isn't allowed to touch anything.
Yes, I find it highly annoying in business meetings when the damn consultants try to steal my RAM and install keyloggers on my machine while I'm giving a presentation on the projector. Luckily I'm the only person that ever goes to business meetings so on a larger scale it's really a non-issue.
Actually, you're on crack. I have a cell tower on my property; it has a battery and fuel-cell backup power source that gives it approximately 48 hours of backup power. We lost power for two weeks a couple of years ago from a blizzard, and the POTS phones worked like a champ for the entire ordeal. The cell phones did not.
Additionally, state law and contracts with electric companies generally require priority power restoration for telephone infrastructure. In several instances that I am personally aware of, telephone switching facilities have a restoration priority higher than the hospitals in the region.
What does your property's cell tower have to do with anything? I said critical regional base stations, not your backyard antenna. They are powered by generators and other auxiliary systems, not AA batteries. Yes, the telephone infrastructure is very highly prioritized, which includes the base stations, at least where I live. Keep your duhs, head shakes and crack, pal.
A well trained pilot would know when to trust the computers and when not to. They would also know how to maneuver and react in situations. It's like the pilot that landed his plane in the river after losing an engine to birds. I don't think a computer would have taken that option and not only would it have been likely that all the passengers would have been killed, but bystanders as the planes computer attempted to correct and eventually goes down in a populated street.
And what if the pilot is not well trained for the situation and conditions, or he/she happens to be tired, bored, distracted, panicing or any number of other things that might cause him to make an error? How often do we hear about accidents caused by computer error vs human error?
Hand your technician or engineering degree back to your college. (shaking head). Cellphones don't work when the receiving towers have no electricity to power them. Duh. That's why it's good to have a wired phone for backup; it's only $5 a month and is typically the only thing that still works when the rest of my house is dead.
I don't need a degree to understand that the critical cellular base stations are up using the same generators and backup power as the electronic PBXs switching your wired phone calls. You do realize that all phone calls use the same PBXs and the same core networks, it's just the last mile that's wireless.
Have we really reached the point where "Good enough is"
No, we haven't. As we know, both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are struggling with true 1080p content, most games advertized as 1080p actually run at a horizontal resolution lower than 1920. We need faster consoles still to take full advantage of the current FullHD displays.
Obviously none of this has anything to do with how good the actual games are, and as Nintendo has shown quite vividly, the actual playability of the games matter more than eye candy. However, I don't see these two issues to contradict each other one bit, why can't we have games that are creative, fun AND look good?
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So why are Slashdotters constantly opposed to copyright and in favor of piracy except in GPL violation articles?
Because we, "Slashdot", are a singular sentient being, that absolutely does not consist of individuals with varying opinions.
Who are you and why are you trying to infiltrate us?
If you can't think of a reason we need it, and you keep it, then isn't that security theater?
I think it's quite arrogant to assume that if you can't figure out a reason, no one else can either. The guy is a usability expert not a security expert, that's where the alarm bells should go off.
If a malicious person can see your screen, than they are probably close enough that that can tap your cables, install hardware keyloggers, sniff your EMF, cold boot your RAM and grep it, do audio analysis of your typing and decipher your keystrokes, and etc.
***ing your passwords protects against a very small hole....the situation where someone is allowed to see your screen but is searched to make sure they have no monitoring equipment, has the keyboard kept out of site, and isn't allowed to touch anything.
Yes, I find it highly annoying in business meetings when the damn consultants try to steal my RAM and install keyloggers on my machine while I'm giving a presentation on the projector. Luckily I'm the only person that ever goes to business meetings so on a larger scale it's really a non-issue.
Actually, you're on crack. I have a cell tower on my property; it has a battery and fuel-cell backup power source that gives it approximately 48 hours of backup power. We lost power for two weeks a couple of years ago from a blizzard, and the POTS phones worked like a champ for the entire ordeal. The cell phones did not.
Additionally, state law and contracts with electric companies generally require priority power restoration for telephone infrastructure. In several instances that I am personally aware of, telephone switching facilities have a restoration priority higher than the hospitals in the region.
What does your property's cell tower have to do with anything? I said critical regional base stations, not your backyard antenna. They are powered by generators and other auxiliary systems, not AA batteries. Yes, the telephone infrastructure is very highly prioritized, which includes the base stations, at least where I live. Keep your duhs, head shakes and crack, pal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/GaffneySC-CellTower.jpg
A well trained pilot would know when to trust the computers and when not to. They would also know how to maneuver and react in situations. It's like the pilot that landed his plane in the river after losing an engine to birds. I don't think a computer would have taken that option and not only would it have been likely that all the passengers would have been killed, but bystanders as the planes computer attempted to correct and eventually goes down in a populated street.
And what if the pilot is not well trained for the situation and conditions, or he/she happens to be tired, bored, distracted, panicing or any number of other things that might cause him to make an error? How often do we hear about accidents caused by computer error vs human error?
Hand your technician or engineering degree back to your college. (shaking head). Cellphones don't work when the receiving towers have no electricity to power them. Duh. That's why it's good to have a wired phone for backup; it's only $5 a month and is typically the only thing that still works when the rest of my house is dead.
I don't need a degree to understand that the critical cellular base stations are up using the same generators and backup power as the electronic PBXs switching your wired phone calls. You do realize that all phone calls use the same PBXs and the same core networks, it's just the last mile that's wireless.
Have we really reached the point where "Good enough is"
No, we haven't. As we know, both the PS3 and the Xbox360 are struggling with true 1080p content, most games advertized as 1080p actually run at a horizontal resolution lower than 1920. We need faster consoles still to take full advantage of the current FullHD displays.
Obviously none of this has anything to do with how good the actual games are, and as Nintendo has shown quite vividly, the actual playability of the games matter more than eye candy. However, I don't see these two issues to contradict each other one bit, why can't we have games that are creative, fun AND look good?
What I think would be best for Google would be to fork a version of OOo to include "Save to the cloud" support and integration with Google Docs.
I'm sure some home users might find that useful, but good luck selling that to businesses.
"Now, where's that option to save this classified document somewhere on the internets?"
I'm hesitant to save even any of my personal stuff to google's services, a business that'd allow it will not be in business for long.
Also I like having old-fashioned phones in my house, because in an electrical outage, they are the only things that still work.
You mean apart from the, uhm, cell phone?