It shouldn't be, since you were too dumb to RTFA. This has nothing to do with preventing doctoring. They are simply trying to streamline their workflow by standardizing on a single format.
Did you RTFA before you called other people too dumb to RTFA?
A Reuters spokesperson has confirmed this policy change with PetaPixel, and says that the decision was made to increase both ethics and speed.
If they only wanted to streamline their workflow by standardizing on a single format, they could have just said "send us JPG's", rather than pretending that a JPG that says it came from a Canon EOS-1D actually did come from a Canon EOS-1d and wasn't post processed and faked to look like it came from the camera.
No they couldn't. The dispatcher job was replaced with software allowing Uber to charge less money even if they did follow all the rules. Unless the taxi companies are prepared to fire all their dispatchers they will never be able to compete.
If their dispatchers are what's holding them back from competing and providing a service that customers want (while reducing labor costs too!), then why wouldn't they fire all of their dispatchers?
Next they will be telling us that X-Wing fights can't really bank in space and don't make that "rrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaararrarrr" noise.
There's no reason why an X-Wing can't bank in space, it just needs to use attitude control rockets and it can bank in any direction it wants to. Since X-Wings can fly in the atmosphere (where banking would be useful), maybe the R2 units automatically bank the fighter in the vacuum of space to give the pilots a more consistent feeling.
There are a number of explanations for the sound that you hear when a fighter flies near the camera in the documentaries you're watching. It could be that the fighters are mic'ed for a more dramatic effect. Or maybe whatever the engine uses for thrust is making an audible sound on the cameras, like maybe electomagnetic interference is inducing noise in the microphone. Or maybe the filmmaker wants to provide audio feedback to viewers, so he uses a laser to remotely record vibrations off the fighter's hull and turns them into audible sound.
All the example attacks cited in the article, and the evil maid attack in the summary, require uninterrupted physical access to the computer. While the specific techniques are interesting, they're all just applications of the the first principle that if an attacker gets unimpeded access to the hardware they're attacking, you have no defenses left.
If your computer is stolen, the lesson here is to assume it's compromised because physical access trumps all.
Makes you wish you could install anti-tamper self destruct on such systems.
I thought the entire point of full disk encryption was to keep your data safe even if the computer is stolen. If FDE is not effective against that, then why bother? It's not like FDE protects you from online attacks so if it can't protect you from physical theft, what can it protect you from?
Since the vehicle is classified as a NEV, it's not allowed to drive over 25mph. If NEV is permitted on a road with a 35mph speed limit,then it's not impeding traffic at 25mph, it's traveling at its maximum legal speed.
If you're considering opening an office in Europe for the sole purpose of cutting labor costs, you may also consider that there is more to the US than Silicon Valley. Nearly every other place in the country, and the world, is cheaper than where you are currently headquartered. You guys seem to have some poor business decisions from the start, so it's not surprising that you're baffled by the obvious right now.
It's much more complicated than that -- but access to a labor pool without the overhead and uncertainty of H1-B approvals for EU candidates is one nice side effect. Thank you for your detailed analysis, I'll be sure to relay that up the chain to top management "Some guy on Slashdot said we're clearly making some bad decisions".
Though I am curious about what you based "poor business decisions from the start" on, I wasn't at the company 4 years ago when it started, so I'm not sure what those decisions were.
They are not a "backup" unless there is something stopping them being overwritten when the main system gets fucked up. It is difficult to fuck up a tape that has been removed from a system when the shit hits. As a hosting provider near me found out in their last day of operation, an offsite mirror doesn't help when the shit hits if it just mirrors the shit and there is no offline copy of the data to restore from. Snapshots help but there are situations where they won't be available. Also tape is still cheap at scale. Once you have the drive the media is less than $100 for 3TB (real size not compressed) so after a point it becomes cheaper to have a real backup on tape than buying drives that are likely to be online 100% of the time and fall victim to whatever they are supposed to be saving you from.
Under what circumstances will snapshots not be available? We make snapshots every 4 hours and keep them for 3 days. Daily snaps are kept for 10 days, weekly snaps are kept for 6 weeks, and monthly snapshots are kept for 6 months. This is all done at the NAS level, application servers don't have access to the snapshots so can't modify or delete them. The primary NAS is replicated (including snapshots) to a secondary NAS (in a different building nearby), and that NAS makes weekly tape dumps that are shipped off to Iron Mountain. We've never had to recall tapes to do a restore, everything we've needed to restore was in snapshots. (we do perform quarterly test restores to make sure we can access the data if we need to). It takes several days to do a full tape backup or restore, so on-disk snapshots are much better than tape, even if tapes are relatively cheap.
It would take a pretty serious disaster or compromise to make our snapshots unavailable.
For the several positions I recruited for, I could not get a single qualified resume. We were paying competitive market rates, with excellent benefits, but, I did not have much luck hiring any good candidates in the Silicon Valley.
Then by definition you were not paying competitive rates. If you were, you wouldn't have had any trouble poaching the available talent from another organization or paying to bring them in from outside the area. The H1-B program is not for local worker shortages "No good candidates in Silicon Valley", it's for NATIONAL shortages as in "No qualified workers in the United States". If you saying that are no qualified embedded programmers in the US with the skillset you need, then I'm going to want so extraordinary levels of proof because that seems highly unlikely.
H1-B doesn't require you to go door to door across the USA to find candidates, you advertise the position and see if you can attract interest. It's becoming harder and harder to find qualified candidates willing to move to the Bay Area because no matter how much you pay them, you can't give them the same lifestyle they had at home. In many areas of the USA, you can have a nice 2000 sq ft house with large yard and a 30 minute drive to work for both spouses and good schools for your kids. In the SF Bay Area, even if you have a million dollars (or more) to spend on a house, there are very few options places where you can have that. And the good candidates already have good jobs, so it's really hard to entice them to move with more money. We had one candidate move across the country who left after 2 months because he couldn't find suitable housing for his family within a reasonable commute. He repaid his moving expenses and signing bonus yet still felt he was better off back in the East Coast town he moved from.
As a former hiring manager for a lager fortune 500 company, whose ass is on the line to finish projects on time, I can assure you, I was not looking for the cheapest hire, but, the most qualified hire. I desperately looked for software engineers with experience in the area of embedded systems and some amount of networking knowledge, but, who are excellent C programmers. For the several positions I recruited for, I could not get a single qualified resume. The good ones don't want to do any C/Linux/Unix programming and are more interested in App or web development for startups. We were paying competitive market rates, with excellent benefits, but, I did not have much luck hiring any good candidates in the Silicon Valley. I completely open to hiring anyone regardless of age, sex, nationality, diability, etc. Being myself an immigrant, I felt bad that I was much more harsh in reviewing the applicants who required H1B and put them at the end of the pile. Believe, me it is much more work for the hiring manager and the company has to spend a lot more to hire a H1B candidate.
What people generally confuse is the abuses perpetuated by the so called body shopping companies, whose primary intent is to get people with some random degree from overseas and try to place them in a position in the US. In contrast, the people who are directly recruited by the large companies as their full time employees, are no different than any other full time employee in that company.
In my opinion, what should happen is, the US congress should close the "body shopping" loophole in the H1B and allow for skill based immigration, instead of H1B.
About 30% of my company's workforce is H1-B workers, and like you, they weren't the cheapest for the job, but the most qualified for the job. Being in the SF Bay area, we face a lot of competition for local workers (even interns get swooped up by the big names like Google, Facebook, etc, so we recruit from various colleges across the country). All of the H1-B's we have hired are either PhD's, or are highly skilled in their field (or both).
But that's what the H1-B program *should* be -- it should only be used to hire highly skilled workers. General IT support workers shouldn't be included since they are much easier to find (even in the SF Bay area).
I predict that we will begin to see (more?) product placements in TV shows. It's an easy way to defeat cord-cutters and DVR'ers. Hey, they've been doing that in movies for decades.
Exactly, product placements are becoming more common (and more blatant), so cutting down on commercials means more time for more product placements.
And now they can do dynamic product placements, no need for a static can of Pepsi on the show, they can show Pepsi to some audiences, and Coke to others:
Not if we set an example and kill everyone involved in making this decision, and their direct families.
And kill everyone that's had their DNA sampled, that way you can be certain that you're starting from a clean slate. Clearly it's the only way to be sure.
When you steal plans for a multi-billion dollar project, how do you know when you've got the real plans, and when you've got decoy plans that were carefully developed to be plausible, yet incorrect?
What happened to passenger hovercraft? That's obvious; the flexibility they provide (amphibious, require little infrastructure) obviously doesn't offset their inherent disadvantages (lack of carrying capacity, poor fuel efficiency, etc) except for military applications. What I want to know is what happened to the hydrofoil? I got to ride on one from H.K. to Macao at a very young age; I remember being mildly disturbed at the speeds we were traveling at... I've never heard a peep about them, however.
Turns out they have their own disadvantages. Seasickness and reliability were a big problem with the last attempt to provide hydrofoil service in Hawaii... though it's been over 30 years since then, so maybe they are better now. Even fast catamarans couldn't succeed in Hawaii, though I think their problems were more political than technical.
“This is about rule of law and the fundamental rights we have from the Constitution, creating laws that enable government to obtain the results of surveillance in ways that are consistent with constitutional rights,” Baker said. “Today, that’s not happening. We are not able to use what’s available today with a 4th Amendment warrant. We do what the law requires, show up with a court order, and can’t get the fruits of surveillance because of encryption.”
Without encryption, what happens when they show up with their warrant and I say "Sorry, I don't have any secrets here, they are hidden in a land far far away and you'll never find them".
How is that any different than if I say "Sorry, my secrets are encrypted, and you'll never decrypt them".
Besides, if commercially available encrypted products are required to have a back door, the smart criminals are just going to use real (i.e. "illegal") encryption to store up their secrets.
>> They're happy to sell existing antibiotics, but they're not interested in researching and developing new ones."They're happy to sell existing antibiotics, but they're not interested in researching and developing new ones."
Said a guy who hasn't been paying attention to the way drugs get developed in the US? (New drugs can be patented and sold for outrageous amounts of money.) Or maybe the professor just needs to switch to a different university that knows how to monetize his work.
Besides, isn't the market for antibiotics shrinking now that they are no longer routinely prescribed for minor ailments?
A new, super expensive antibiotic would be prescribed very rarely -- only in cases where such a special antibiotic were truly necessary. Even if you charge $2,000 a dose, you still need to sell a million doses to make back the two billion dollars it took to develop and test the drug.
Even if you sell it cheaply, it can take years before it becomes commonplace since it's still a new and untested treatment, so well known alternatives will be tried first, and you have limited time to earn back the development costs before the patent expires.
That's why it's a good idea to get a blinky light to hang on the headphones you hang around your neck, so the cyclists don't hit you when running.
The bike path is softer than the too hard sidewalks, as any decent runner knows.
At the very least, wear some reflective gear - I have good lights on my bike, I usually turn them down low on the bike path so I don't blind other trail users, but come on people - don't wear all black and run in the middle of the trail. Reflective gear may not be "cool", but it may help you avoid a trip to the hospital. It's gotten to the point now where I turn my headlight up to medium when I'm on unlit trails so I can see darkly clad pedestrians.
I hear of runners running (no pun intended) into trouble when they are out practicing while wearing headphones. If she's just getting started, do you really want to prioritize on that?
Three posts in and we already have the obligatory "Why would you want to do that?" response. Some things never change.
It's a valid point - many races ban headphones and running on streets with headphones is not just a badidea, it's outright stupid. Anything that reduces your situational awareness out on the road is a bad thing - especially when you're out on a 20 mile run and towards the end, you just want to get home.
That watch trained me through at least 10 marathons and a couple Ironmans. I had a Garmin GPS watch + Heartrate monitor for a while, but I found myself paying more attention to it than just paying attention to my body.
50 splits so I can get splits for each mile of the marathon. The "Flix" backlight was handy for night runs so a flick of the wrist turns on the light. Battery lasts for years, and the watch is 100% waterproof (which is more than I can say for the Garmin - I had to send it back for repair twice when water got inside)
cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100?
Most prison yards are no where near an acre. Last time I was in jail, our outdoor exercise area was 20x50ft, with high concrete walls. They only thing visible was the sky. We called it the "dog kennel". In the movies, they often show large yards, because that allows for more drama. Real prisons like to avoid drama.
35 acres within the perimeter. Inmates aren't allowed outside of the inner secure yard all the time, but to prevent contraband from being smuggled in, it would have to cover the entire secure perimeter.
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
The DOC of the states can comment to this post if they want to send me a check for (puts pinkie to mouth) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! for this technological masterpiece of innovation.
God, being a fucking brilliant Irate Engineer is fucking hard. Will all you nitwits shut to hell up and let me think? I'm trying to cure your pattern baldness and homosexuality, dammit, and it's not an easy problem. I might have to submit to a higher authority, which I hate.
You can buy enough netting (that will stand up to years of exposure) and support structure at Home Depot to cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100? Which home depot to you shop at?
Amazon, Rackspace, et-al don't give a shit about your data.
They care about the data your data generates. That is backed-up, carefully guarded and controlled. Your data on the other hand, it stored on the B and C grade disks, tapes and run on any old CPU in the farm that is past it's prime.
Centralized data is great, for hackers. One target, lots of data, lots of reward. Targeting that one user, with the firewall? Not so much.
I don't care what grade disks my data is on as long as they don't use it. I several hundred TB's of data on EBS volumes (magnetic and SSD) and haven't lost any of it in the 3+ years it's been there. I have thousands of terabytes of data on S3 volumes and haven't lost any of that either.
I have, on the other hand, lost data that was stored on local ephemeral volumes when instances stopped working and had to be restarted, but that was no surprise since they is a reason they are called "ephemeral" disks.
If AWS can store data on cheap disks while still providing reasonable access times and durability, well good for them and good for me.
I had a tiny Gerber Dime multi-tool in the bottom of my backpack -- it had been there for 6 months and at least a dozen flights (including 2 international flights) until finally a screener in Las Vegas found it. It's truly a tiny tool, the blade must be no longer than 3 or 4 cm, so I was surprised that they wanted to confiscate it. I asked him if I could use the larger Leatherman I saw in his discard bin and use it to break off the blade on my tool (the scissors, which were just as long and almost as sharp as the blade were fine, only the blade was a "hazard"), he said "No, that is confiscated contraband, no one is allowed to touch it, and even if you did, you'd have to go all the way back through security"... and wasting another 30 - 40 minutes didn't seem worth it for a $15 tool, so he confiscated it (or took it home and sold it on eBay, who knows, since they don't give receipts for confiscated goods so there's no accountability)
But really, if I were going to kill (or threaten to kill) someone on the plane, I'd use my metal shafted Cross Pen which is much more sturdy than any tiny fold out blade and I think I'd have a better chance of causing injury with it.
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And it's an insult to my intelligence.
It shouldn't be, since you were too dumb to RTFA. This has nothing to do with preventing doctoring. They are simply trying to streamline their workflow by standardizing on a single format.
Did you RTFA before you called other people too dumb to RTFA?
A Reuters spokesperson has confirmed this policy change with PetaPixel, and says that the decision was made to increase both ethics and speed.
If they only wanted to streamline their workflow by standardizing on a single format, they could have just said "send us JPG's", rather than pretending that a JPG that says it came from a Canon EOS-1D actually did come from a Canon EOS-1d and wasn't post processed and faked to look like it came from the camera.
No they couldn't. The dispatcher job was replaced with software allowing Uber to charge less money even if they did follow all the rules. Unless the taxi companies are prepared to fire all their dispatchers they will never be able to compete.
If their dispatchers are what's holding them back from competing and providing a service that customers want (while reducing labor costs too!), then why wouldn't they fire all of their dispatchers?
Next they will be telling us that X-Wing fights can't really bank in space and don't make that "rrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaararrarrr" noise.
There's no reason why an X-Wing can't bank in space, it just needs to use attitude control rockets and it can bank in any direction it wants to. Since X-Wings can fly in the atmosphere (where banking would be useful), maybe the R2 units automatically bank the fighter in the vacuum of space to give the pilots a more consistent feeling.
There are a number of explanations for the sound that you hear when a fighter flies near the camera in the documentaries you're watching. It could be that the fighters are mic'ed for a more dramatic effect. Or maybe whatever the engine uses for thrust is making an audible sound on the cameras, like maybe electomagnetic interference is inducing noise in the microphone. Or maybe the filmmaker wants to provide audio feedback to viewers, so he uses a laser to remotely record vibrations off the fighter's hull and turns them into audible sound.
All the example attacks cited in the article, and the evil maid attack in the summary, require uninterrupted physical access to the computer. While the specific techniques are interesting, they're all just applications of the the first principle that if an attacker gets unimpeded access to the hardware they're attacking, you have no defenses left.
If your computer is stolen, the lesson here is to assume it's compromised because physical access trumps all.
Makes you wish you could install anti-tamper self destruct on such systems.
I thought the entire point of full disk encryption was to keep your data safe even if the computer is stolen. If FDE is not effective against that, then why bother? It's not like FDE protects you from online attacks so if it can't protect you from physical theft, what can it protect you from?
Since the vehicle is classified as a NEV, it's not allowed to drive over 25mph. If NEV is permitted on a road with a 35mph speed limit,then it's not impeding traffic at 25mph, it's traveling at its maximum legal speed.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...
V C Section 385.5 Low Speed Vehicle
Low Speed Vehicle
385.5. (a) A "low-speed vehicle" is a motor vehicle that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) Has four wheels.
(2) Can attain a speed, in one mile, of more than 20 miles per hour and not more than 25 miles per hour, on a paved level surface.
(3) Has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 3,000 pounds.
(b) (1) For the purposes of this section, a "low-speed vehicle" is not a golf cart, except when operated pursuant to Section 21115 or 21115.1.
(2) A "low-speed vehicle" is also known as a "neighborhood electric vehicle."
If you're considering opening an office in Europe for the sole purpose of cutting labor costs, you may also consider that there is more to the US than Silicon Valley. Nearly every other place in the country, and the world, is cheaper than where you are currently headquartered. You guys seem to have some poor business decisions from the start, so it's not surprising that you're baffled by the obvious right now.
It's much more complicated than that -- but access to a labor pool without the overhead and uncertainty of H1-B approvals for EU candidates is one nice side effect. Thank you for your detailed analysis, I'll be sure to relay that up the chain to top management "Some guy on Slashdot said we're clearly making some bad decisions".
Though I am curious about what you based "poor business decisions from the start" on, I wasn't at the company 4 years ago when it started, so I'm not sure what those decisions were.
They are not a "backup" unless there is something stopping them being overwritten when the main system gets fucked up. It is difficult to fuck up a tape that has been removed from a system when the shit hits. As a hosting provider near me found out in their last day of operation, an offsite mirror doesn't help when the shit hits if it just mirrors the shit and there is no offline copy of the data to restore from.
Snapshots help but there are situations where they won't be available.
Also tape is still cheap at scale. Once you have the drive the media is less than $100 for 3TB (real size not compressed) so after a point it becomes cheaper to have a real backup on tape than buying drives that are likely to be online 100% of the time and fall victim to whatever they are supposed to be saving you from.
Under what circumstances will snapshots not be available? We make snapshots every 4 hours and keep them for 3 days. Daily snaps are kept for 10 days, weekly snaps are kept for 6 weeks, and monthly snapshots are kept for 6 months. This is all done at the NAS level, application servers don't have access to the snapshots so can't modify or delete them. The primary NAS is replicated (including snapshots) to a secondary NAS (in a different building nearby), and that NAS makes weekly tape dumps that are shipped off to Iron Mountain. We've never had to recall tapes to do a restore, everything we've needed to restore was in snapshots. (we do perform quarterly test restores to make sure we can access the data if we need to). It takes several days to do a full tape backup or restore, so on-disk snapshots are much better than tape, even if tapes are relatively cheap.
It would take a pretty serious disaster or compromise to make our snapshots unavailable.
So basically what you're saying is that you need to move your headquarters.
Yeah, that's a distinct possibility - we may open a development office in Europe and cut our USA engineering staff by 50% as we ramp up over there.
For the several positions I recruited for, I could not get a single qualified resume. We were paying competitive market rates, with excellent benefits, but, I did not have much luck hiring any good candidates in the Silicon Valley.
Then by definition you were not paying competitive rates. If you were, you wouldn't have had any trouble poaching the available talent from another organization or paying to bring them in from outside the area. The H1-B program is not for local worker shortages "No good candidates in Silicon Valley", it's for NATIONAL shortages as in "No qualified workers in the United States". If you saying that are no qualified embedded programmers in the US with the skillset you need, then I'm going to want so extraordinary levels of proof because that seems highly unlikely.
H1-B doesn't require you to go door to door across the USA to find candidates, you advertise the position and see if you can attract interest. It's becoming harder and harder to find qualified candidates willing to move to the Bay Area because no matter how much you pay them, you can't give them the same lifestyle they had at home. In many areas of the USA, you can have a nice 2000 sq ft house with large yard and a 30 minute drive to work for both spouses and good schools for your kids. In the SF Bay Area, even if you have a million dollars (or more) to spend on a house, there are very few options places where you can have that. And the good candidates already have good jobs, so it's really hard to entice them to move with more money. We had one candidate move across the country who left after 2 months because he couldn't find suitable housing for his family within a reasonable commute. He repaid his moving expenses and signing bonus yet still felt he was better off back in the East Coast town he moved from.
As a former hiring manager for a lager fortune 500 company, whose ass is on the line to finish projects on time, I can assure you, I was not looking for the cheapest hire, but, the most qualified hire. I desperately looked for software engineers with experience in the area of embedded systems and some amount of networking knowledge, but, who are excellent C programmers. For the several positions I recruited for, I could not get a single qualified resume. The good ones don't want to do any C/Linux/Unix programming and are more interested in App or web development for startups. We were paying competitive market rates, with excellent benefits, but, I did not have much luck hiring any good candidates in the Silicon Valley. I completely open to hiring anyone regardless of age, sex, nationality, diability, etc. Being myself an immigrant, I felt bad that I was much more harsh in reviewing the applicants who required H1B and put them at the end of the pile. Believe, me it is much more work for the hiring manager and the company has to spend a lot more to hire a H1B candidate.
What people generally confuse is the abuses perpetuated by the so called body shopping companies, whose primary intent is to get people with some random degree from overseas and try to place them in a position in the US. In contrast, the people who are directly recruited by the large companies as their full time employees, are no different than any other full time employee in that company.
In my opinion, what should happen is, the US congress should close the "body shopping" loophole in the H1B and allow for skill based immigration, instead of H1B.
About 30% of my company's workforce is H1-B workers, and like you, they weren't the cheapest for the job, but the most qualified for the job. Being in the SF Bay area, we face a lot of competition for local workers (even interns get swooped up by the big names like Google, Facebook, etc, so we recruit from various colleges across the country). All of the H1-B's we have hired are either PhD's, or are highly skilled in their field (or both).
But that's what the H1-B program *should* be -- it should only be used to hire highly skilled workers. General IT support workers shouldn't be included since they are much easier to find (even in the SF Bay area).
I predict that we will begin to see (more?) product placements in TV shows. It's an easy way to defeat cord-cutters and DVR'ers. Hey, they've been doing that in movies for decades.
Exactly, product placements are becoming more common (and more blatant), so cutting down on commercials means more time for more product placements.
And now they can do dynamic product placements, no need for a static can of Pepsi on the show, they can show Pepsi to some audiences, and Coke to others:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
Not if we set an example and kill everyone involved in making this decision, and their direct families.
And kill everyone that's had their DNA sampled, that way you can be certain that you're starting from a clean slate. Clearly it's the only way to be sure.
When you steal plans for a multi-billion dollar project, how do you know when you've got the real plans, and when you've got decoy plans that were carefully developed to be plausible, yet incorrect?
What happened to passenger hovercraft? That's obvious; the flexibility they provide (amphibious, require little infrastructure) obviously doesn't offset their inherent disadvantages (lack of carrying capacity, poor fuel efficiency, etc) except for military applications. What I want to know is what happened to the hydrofoil? I got to ride on one from H.K. to Macao at a very young age; I remember being mildly disturbed at the speeds we were traveling at... I've never heard a peep about them, however.
Turns out they have their own disadvantages. Seasickness and reliability were a big problem with the last attempt to provide hydrofoil service in Hawaii... though it's been over 30 years since then, so maybe they are better now. Even fast catamarans couldn't succeed in Hawaii, though I think their problems were more political than technical.
http://beatofhawaii.com/hawaii...
“This is about rule of law and the fundamental rights we have from the Constitution, creating laws that enable government to obtain the results of surveillance in ways that are consistent with constitutional rights,” Baker said. “Today, that’s not happening. We are not able to use what’s available today with a 4th Amendment warrant. We do what the law requires, show up with a court order, and can’t get the fruits of surveillance because of encryption.”
Without encryption, what happens when they show up with their warrant and I say "Sorry, I don't have any secrets here, they are hidden in a land far far away and you'll never find them".
How is that any different than if I say "Sorry, my secrets are encrypted, and you'll never decrypt them".
Besides, if commercially available encrypted products are required to have a back door, the smart criminals are just going to use real (i.e. "illegal") encryption to store up their secrets.
>> They're happy to sell existing antibiotics, but they're not interested in researching and developing new ones."They're happy to sell existing antibiotics, but they're not interested in researching and developing new ones."
Said a guy who hasn't been paying attention to the way drugs get developed in the US? (New drugs can be patented and sold for outrageous amounts of money.) Or maybe the professor just needs to switch to a different university that knows how to monetize his work.
Besides, isn't the market for antibiotics shrinking now that they are no longer routinely prescribed for minor ailments?
A new, super expensive antibiotic would be prescribed very rarely -- only in cases where such a special antibiotic were truly necessary. Even if you charge $2,000 a dose, you still need to sell a million doses to make back the two billion dollars it took to develop and test the drug.
Even if you sell it cheaply, it can take years before it becomes commonplace since it's still a new and untested treatment, so well known alternatives will be tried first, and you have limited time to earn back the development costs before the patent expires.
Excess running damages the heart.
Excess Bacon damages the heart too. I'll stick with the excess running and see how that works out.
That's why it's a good idea to get a blinky light to hang on the headphones you hang around your neck, so the cyclists don't hit you when running.
The bike path is softer than the too hard sidewalks, as any decent runner knows.
At the very least, wear some reflective gear - I have good lights on my bike, I usually turn them down low on the bike path so I don't blind other trail users, but come on people - don't wear all black and run in the middle of the trail. Reflective gear may not be "cool", but it may help you avoid a trip to the hospital. It's gotten to the point now where I turn my headlight up to medium when I'm on unlit trails so I can see darkly clad pedestrians.
I hear of runners running (no pun intended) into trouble when they are out practicing while wearing headphones. If she's just getting started, do you really want to prioritize on that?
Three posts in and we already have the obligatory "Why would you want to do that?" response. Some things never change.
It's a valid point - many races ban headphones and running on streets with headphones is not just a bad idea, it's outright stupid. Anything that reduces your situational awareness out on the road is a bad thing - especially when you're out on a 20 mile run and towards the end, you just want to get home.
Timex Ironman 50 lap watch:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Timex-...
That watch trained me through at least 10 marathons and a couple Ironmans. I had a Garmin GPS watch + Heartrate monitor for a while, but I found myself paying more attention to it than just paying attention to my body.
50 splits so I can get splits for each mile of the marathon. The "Flix" backlight was handy for night runs so a flick of the wrist turns on the light. Battery lasts for years, and the watch is 100% waterproof (which is more than I can say for the Garmin - I had to send it back for repair twice when water got inside)
cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100?
Most prison yards are no where near an acre. Last time I was in jail, our outdoor exercise area was 20x50ft, with high concrete walls. They only thing visible was the sky. We called it the "dog kennel". In the movies, they often show large yards, because that allows for more drama. Real prisons like to avoid drama.
Rockview State Prison: http://www.cor.pa.gov/Faciliti...
35 acres within the perimeter. Inmates aren't allowed outside of the inner secure yard all the time, but to prevent contraband from being smuggled in, it would have to cover the entire secure perimeter.
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
The DOC of the states can comment to this post if they want to send me a check for (puts pinkie to mouth) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! for this technological masterpiece of innovation.
God, being a fucking brilliant Irate Engineer is fucking hard. Will all you nitwits shut to hell up and let me think? I'm trying to cure your pattern baldness and homosexuality, dammit, and it's not an easy problem. I might have to submit to a higher authority, which I hate.
You can buy enough netting (that will stand up to years of exposure) and support structure at Home Depot to cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100? Which home depot to you shop at?
Amazon, Rackspace, et-al don't give a shit about your data.
They care about the data your data generates. That is backed-up, carefully guarded and controlled. Your data on the other hand, it stored on the B and C grade disks, tapes and run on any old CPU in the farm that is past it's prime.
Centralized data is great, for hackers. One target, lots of data, lots of reward. Targeting that one user, with the firewall? Not so much.
I don't care what grade disks my data is on as long as they don't use it. I several hundred TB's of data on EBS volumes (magnetic and SSD) and haven't lost any of it in the 3+ years it's been there. I have thousands of terabytes of data on S3 volumes and haven't lost any of that either.
I have, on the other hand, lost data that was stored on local ephemeral volumes when instances stopped working and had to be restarted, but that was no surprise since they is a reason they are called "ephemeral" disks.
If AWS can store data on cheap disks while still providing reasonable access times and durability, well good for them and good for me.
I had a tiny Gerber Dime multi-tool in the bottom of my backpack -- it had been there for 6 months and at least a dozen flights (including 2 international flights) until finally a screener in Las Vegas found it. It's truly a tiny tool, the blade must be no longer than 3 or 4 cm, so I was surprised that they wanted to confiscate it. I asked him if I could use the larger Leatherman I saw in his discard bin and use it to break off the blade on my tool (the scissors, which were just as long and almost as sharp as the blade were fine, only the blade was a "hazard"), he said "No, that is confiscated contraband, no one is allowed to touch it, and even if you did, you'd have to go all the way back through security"... and wasting another 30 - 40 minutes didn't seem worth it for a $15 tool, so he confiscated it (or took it home and sold it on eBay, who knows, since they don't give receipts for confiscated goods so there's no accountability)
But really, if I were going to kill (or threaten to kill) someone on the plane, I'd use my metal shafted Cross Pen which is much more sturdy than any tiny fold out blade and I think I'd have a better chance of causing injury with it.
Last I checked, fax machines were digital data streams....
Sent via the user's analog phone line.