Tablets and Chromebooks are *not* alternatives for PCs, for most of their owners these are complementary products (ie people use both), not replacement products. Linux (which I occasionally use) is more of an alternative, but with a large number of dual booters its not quite there. The Mac (which I regularly use) is closer to being an alternative, but Mac hardware also has its dual booters. The Mac's marketshare did not rise dramatically until it went Intel CPU and dual booting became an option, well that and emulation becoming much more viable once a CPU architecture no longer had to be emulated. The old Mac vs PC argument became irrelevant, you could have both in one box. Games make it difficult to forsake Windows. I also have some specialized software that is Windows only, but these are irrelevant to most people.
The PC sales drop probably has little to do with Windows 8. It seems mostly likely due to the fact that CPU, RAM and HD are far beyond the needs of many users. I put together a 64-bit 3GHz dual core Athlon about 4-5 years ago. I've upgraded the video card. Will I win any pissing contests? No, but it suits my needs well.
Once upon a time I used to build a new system every few years and I would notice a dramatic difference in day to day tasks. Today I could replace my 4-5 years old system and not really notice anything until I ran a game or some other very specialized software. This is what is killing PC sales.
Few would care for their parents music collection.
A few years ago, I was helping my teenage daughter with her homework. My wife walked in, and told us that Michael Jackson had died. My daughter asked "Who's Michael Jackson?"
How does not knowing the band/artist make one unable to appreciate a great piece of music? I can see the other side, being a fan of a band/artist can make one like something that is in truth, of low quality. However not knowing the band/artist would seem to make one more neutral when evaluating music.
How is this not a real attack to begin with? Just because they cooperate in the medical business doesn't mean they have the right to penetrate each others IT systems.
In order to gain access to the hospital network the independent group probably signed a contract and it is likely that this contract allows such testing.
Having said that: I do think it would have been more professional to at least have informed them that security audits would be carried out, and not to worry about apparent attacks coming from IP addresses X, Y, and Z. As long as they did not pre-block those addresses, that would not affect any of the security audits in the slightest, and would ease any anxiety on the part of these people.
The testing/auditing is not necessarily only to evaluate the network, evaluating the admin/security team may also be part of the plan. In other words part of the test may be to verify that these folks get worried in a reasonably short amount of time and take appropriate actions.
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.
It's only contrived if you fail to consider that most people who are SELLING a USED iPhone on Craigslist are selling their OLD model, not the new one they just purchased.
The 3G is not simply an old model, its an obsolete model. Many actively supported apps won't support its CPU (armv6), amount of RAM (128MB), or OS version (4.2.1). The 3G was replaced by the 3GS nearly 4 years ago, it sales slowed before that due to the impending release of the 3GS, and it has not even been offered as a low end budget alternative for nearly 3 years. I expect the used iPhones being sold today are generally iPhone 3GS or 4, phones that are supported by the current version of iOS and actively supported by apps.
Now if you want to complain that a phone sold 3 years ago is obsolete, well that is a different topic and I'm likely to agree with you. But with respect to the topic of today's used iPhone market, focusing on the 3G does seem contrived for the reasons above.
After erasing the contents fill the 3G with music to overwrite, then erase again?
Pretty sure the filesystem in iOS can have partially empty blocks. I'd make a copy of my music, then run find . -type f -print0 | perl -n0e 'truncate($_, -s $_ >> 13 13)' to make sure that all the files were rounded off to 4096 bytes first.
I just thought to check for apps that wipe storage, there are several. I should have known there was an app for that.:-)
But you're assuming that everyone who had an older phone ran out and ditched it the moment the new ones came out and thus there are no older iPhones with older software in use.
Oh wait... we're talking about Apple. Ok, yeah, everyone DID immediately ditch their old phone the moment the new model came out. Nevermind.
Its been nearly 3 years since the 3G has been sold. Both iPhone and Android users tend to have phones less than 3 years old.
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.
An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.
Sorry, but the iPhone 3G tops out at version 4.1.2. The 3GS, on the other hand, does have support for iOS 6, if I remember correctly.
My bad. I might have been thinking of the iPod 3rd gen which tops out at 5.1. The iPhone 3GS (also 3rd gen) is supported by iOS 6.1, the current version.
Did the previous owner use the "erase all content and settings" feature of that phone? Or just restore it. That would have been using the built in tool and would have overwrote the data. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2110
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.
An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.
OT but I think WW2 is better served as an example of how well appeasement works.
Not entirely, it serves as an example of just ignoring a problem as well. Appeasement usually refers to the territorial claims of land in neighboring countries in the late 1930s. However issues with respect to treaty violations, re-armament in particular, were pretty much ignored in the early/mid 30s. Without the re-armament there would have been no appeasement.
I have a question. Why don't they put these cables where ships don't anchor, rather than laying them right straight through the harbour?
They generally don't lay them in areas where ships anchor. Plus in a harbor ships are generally docked or moored at predetermined locations. There is not a lot or stopping wherever you like and dropping an anchor, that interferes with navigation in the harbor. Note the references to distance from shore and greater depths, it sounds like the ship was anchored in open water.
The real problem is that there is a force of nature where backhoes and anchors are attracted to cables. No cable on land or sea is safe.
Despite the "C" designation it does not seem to be much of a cargo plane, that may be a secondary ad hoc role. It seems to be more of an executive transport aircraft. Although wiki does mention it is sometimes used to transport wounded rather than VIPs, liaisons, attaches, staff, etc. There also seems to be a reconnaissance version for signals/electronic intelligence.
Maybe it should get a "U" designation for utility like some Army helicopters.
But they painted the noses orange, that clearly proves it's not a military drone! What could go wrong?
Apparently little, this sort of thing has been going on for many decades with respect to helicopters. The difference between some military and police helicopters is little more than the paint job, missing military avionics and no weapons mounted. This drone situation seems entirely comparable to the helicopter situation, and the light observation aircraft that goes back even farther.
Aren't the drones just a higher tech lower cost alternative to helicopters and light observation aircraft? It seems they do nothing new, they may be more numerous though.
It's not going to work on me. I don't have any fashion style.
It may not work for your friend hoping to recognize you in the crowd but it still works for google and their delivery of targeted ads to you. Unless you are wearing homespun somebody is selling what you are wearing, fashionable of not.
Like humans there is a wide range of personalities among wolves. Some intrinsically dominate, some intrinsically submissive. The later would make better partners for humans. The former, even if raised amongst humans as a pup, would most likely end up in the stew pot as it grew older and tried to assert dominance of human members of its "pack".
I personally know someone who raised a wolf pup. It did no such thing. Consider that the ancients probably had a higher tolerance for violence than we do, too, even if something did go wrong the odd time.
As I said wolf personalities vary. To be clear a submissive personality does not mean an animal prone to being shy, easily frightened, cowering etc. They will interact with people, play, protect, hunt, etc in what is considered a "normal" manner. They just don't feel the need to be the alpha and don't challenge and test their human "masters" the way a more dominant eventually would. I have some personal experience in this area too, plus some academic reading in this area. Wildlife biologists specializing in wolves warn against raising a wolf due to this sort of problem.
Regarding primitive people, while possibly more tolerant of violence they are also probably more likely to use violence. I think this could balance things out to some degree. Even *if* no action was taken at the moment of "something going wrong", when food becomes short and given two animals that both hunt and both guard, but one is more troublesome than the other. Which is more likely to go into the pot?
is work being done? if timelines are met, and dates don't slip, then the number of times i log into a vpn isn't a valid metric.
period.
In Computer Science it is taught that using simplistic metrics to measure productivity is foolish. That the metric can often be easily gamed, that the highly productive may not behave as the metric assumes.
In Business School it is taught (repeatedly) that you do not get what you ask for, you do not even get what everyone agrees is good or correct, what you get is what you reward. Use VPN logins as a metric and you will get more VPN logins, not necessarily productivity.
Perhaps more importantly, Dilbert teaches us about Wally's minivan.
I'm not saying the decision is necessarily bad, for many projects/tasks there is something to be said for being on site and having very useful unplanned accidental conversations and having nearly guaranteed access to coworkers. However this VPN metric just seems to be a public excuse, that the decision was made for other reasons. And of course whether this decision is fair to existing remote workers is something else entirely.
I used to configure my desktop PCs to dual boot Windows and Linux. I started doing so in the mid 90s. Some tasks were just better performed in a unix environment. I didn't care about the politics of linux, I just wanted a unix environment. In more recent years I've found that Mac OS X fills this role quite well, for both traditional unix tools and whatever FOSS software I want to run. Some folks seem to erroneously equate FOSS with linux but configure; make; make install seems to work just as well under os x for what I've tried. Mac OS X just makes for a better desktop environment. I still use linux, but its running on the headless servers in the closet. I have linux VMs to start up in VMWare should I actually need Linux but I don't think I've started one up in a year. At the time I had to write something that would be deployed on a RHEL box and I started the project at home under CentOS.
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Tablets and Chromebooks are *not* alternatives for PCs, for most of their owners these are complementary products (ie people use both), not replacement products. Linux (which I occasionally use) is more of an alternative, but with a large number of dual booters its not quite there. The Mac (which I regularly use) is closer to being an alternative, but Mac hardware also has its dual booters. The Mac's marketshare did not rise dramatically until it went Intel CPU and dual booting became an option, well that and emulation becoming much more viable once a CPU architecture no longer had to be emulated. The old Mac vs PC argument became irrelevant, you could have both in one box. Games make it difficult to forsake Windows. I also have some specialized software that is Windows only, but these are irrelevant to most people.
The PC sales drop probably has little to do with Windows 8. It seems mostly likely due to the fact that CPU, RAM and HD are far beyond the needs of many users. I put together a 64-bit 3GHz dual core Athlon about 4-5 years ago. I've upgraded the video card. Will I win any pissing contests? No, but it suits my needs well.
Once upon a time I used to build a new system every few years and I would notice a dramatic difference in day to day tasks. Today I could replace my 4-5 years old system and not really notice anything until I ran a game or some other very specialized software. This is what is killing PC sales.
Few would care for their parents music collection.
A few years ago, I was helping my teenage daughter with her homework. My wife walked in, and told us that Michael Jackson had died. My daughter asked "Who's Michael Jackson?"
How does not knowing the band/artist make one unable to appreciate a great piece of music? I can see the other side, being a fan of a band/artist can make one like something that is in truth, of low quality. However not knowing the band/artist would seem to make one more neutral when evaluating music.
How is this not a real attack to begin with? Just because they cooperate in the medical business doesn't mean they have the right to penetrate each others IT systems.
In order to gain access to the hospital network the independent group probably signed a contract and it is likely that this contract allows such testing.
Having said that: I do think it would have been more professional to at least have informed them that security audits would be carried out, and not to worry about apparent attacks coming from IP addresses X, Y, and Z. As long as they did not pre-block those addresses, that would not affect any of the security audits in the slightest, and would ease any anxiety on the part of these people.
The testing/auditing is not necessarily only to evaluate the network, evaluating the admin/security team may also be part of the plan. In other words part of the test may be to verify that these folks get worried in a reasonably short amount of time and take appropriate actions.
This was to prove that selling your OLD PHONE can raise security issues
It still seems contrived, the 3G is obsolete not simply old. To avoid redundant posts: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3607997&cid=43344171
To avoid redundant posts ... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3607997&cid=43344171
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.
It's only contrived if you fail to consider that most people who are SELLING a USED iPhone on Craigslist are selling their OLD model, not the new one they just purchased.
The 3G is not simply an old model, its an obsolete model. Many actively supported apps won't support its CPU (armv6), amount of RAM (128MB), or OS version (4.2.1). The 3G was replaced by the 3GS nearly 4 years ago, it sales slowed before that due to the impending release of the 3GS, and it has not even been offered as a low end budget alternative for nearly 3 years. I expect the used iPhones being sold today are generally iPhone 3GS or 4, phones that are supported by the current version of iOS and actively supported by apps.
Now if you want to complain that a phone sold 3 years ago is obsolete, well that is a different topic and I'm likely to agree with you. But with respect to the topic of today's used iPhone market, focusing on the 3G does seem contrived for the reasons above.
After erasing the contents fill the 3G with music to overwrite, then erase again?
Pretty sure the filesystem in iOS can have partially empty blocks. I'd make a copy of my music, then run find . -type f -print0 | perl -n0e 'truncate($_, -s $_ >> 13 13)' to make sure that all the files were rounded off to 4096 bytes first.
I just thought to check for apps that wipe storage, there are several. I should have known there was an app for that. :-)
But you're assuming that everyone who had an older phone ran out and ditched it the moment the new ones came out and thus there are no older iPhones with older software in use.
Oh wait... we're talking about Apple. Ok, yeah, everyone DID immediately ditch their old phone the moment the new model came out. Nevermind.
Its been nearly 3 years since the 3G has been sold. Both iPhone and Android users tend to have phones less than 3 years old.
After erasing the contents fill the 3G with music to overwrite, then erase again?
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test. An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.
Sorry, but the iPhone 3G tops out at version 4.1.2. The 3GS, on the other hand, does have support for iOS 6, if I remember correctly.
My bad. I might have been thinking of the iPod 3rd gen which tops out at 5.1. The iPhone 3GS (also 3rd gen) is supported by iOS 6.1, the current version.
Did the previous owner use the "erase all content and settings" feature of that phone? Or just restore it. That would have been using the built in tool and would have overwrote the data. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2110
The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test.
An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.
OT but I think WW2 is better served as an example of how well appeasement works.
Not entirely, it serves as an example of just ignoring a problem as well. Appeasement usually refers to the territorial claims of land in neighboring countries in the late 1930s. However issues with respect to treaty violations, re-armament in particular, were pretty much ignored in the early/mid 30s. Without the re-armament there would have been no appeasement.
I have a question. Why don't they put these cables where ships don't anchor, rather than laying them right straight through the harbour?
They generally don't lay them in areas where ships anchor. Plus in a harbor ships are generally docked or moored at predetermined locations. There is not a lot or stopping wherever you like and dropping an anchor, that interferes with navigation in the harbor. Note the references to distance from shore and greater depths, it sounds like the ship was anchored in open water.
The real problem is that there is a force of nature where backhoes and anchors are attracted to cables. No cable on land or sea is safe.
Sadly it might have been interesting to record radiation levels during the drive.
Despite the "C" designation it does not seem to be much of a cargo plane, that may be a secondary ad hoc role. It seems to be more of an executive transport aircraft. Although wiki does mention it is sometimes used to transport wounded rather than VIPs, liaisons, attaches, staff, etc. There also seems to be a reconnaissance version for signals/electronic intelligence.
Maybe it should get a "U" designation for utility like some Army helicopters.
But they painted the noses orange, that clearly proves it's not a military drone! What could go wrong?
Apparently little, this sort of thing has been going on for many decades with respect to helicopters. The difference between some military and police helicopters is little more than the paint job, missing military avionics and no weapons mounted. This drone situation seems entirely comparable to the helicopter situation, and the light observation aircraft that goes back even farther.
Aren't the drones just a higher tech lower cost alternative to helicopters and light observation aircraft? It seems they do nothing new, they may be more numerous though.
It's not going to work on me. I don't have any fashion style.
It may not work for your friend hoping to recognize you in the crowd but it still works for google and their delivery of targeted ads to you. Unless you are wearing homespun somebody is selling what you are wearing, fashionable of not.
What if I have no fashion style?
Then google will target you with ads from vendors offering clothes with no style.
I personally know someone who raised a wolf pup. It did no such thing. Consider that the ancients probably had a higher tolerance for violence than we do, too, even if something did go wrong the odd time.
As I said wolf personalities vary. To be clear a submissive personality does not mean an animal prone to being shy, easily frightened, cowering etc. They will interact with people, play, protect, hunt, etc in what is considered a "normal" manner. They just don't feel the need to be the alpha and don't challenge and test their human "masters" the way a more dominant eventually would. I have some personal experience in this area too, plus some academic reading in this area. Wildlife biologists specializing in wolves warn against raising a wolf due to this sort of problem.
Regarding primitive people, while possibly more tolerant of violence they are also probably more likely to use violence. I think this could balance things out to some degree. Even *if* no action was taken at the moment of "something going wrong", when food becomes short and given two animals that both hunt and both guard, but one is more troublesome than the other. Which is more likely to go into the pot?
is work being done? if timelines are met, and dates don't slip, then the number of times i log into a vpn isn't a valid metric.
period.
In Computer Science it is taught that using simplistic metrics to measure productivity is foolish. That the metric can often be easily gamed, that the highly productive may not behave as the metric assumes.
In Business School it is taught (repeatedly) that you do not get what you ask for, you do not even get what everyone agrees is good or correct, what you get is what you reward. Use VPN logins as a metric and you will get more VPN logins, not necessarily productivity.
Perhaps more importantly, Dilbert teaches us about Wally's minivan.
I'm not saying the decision is necessarily bad, for many projects/tasks there is something to be said for being on site and having very useful unplanned accidental conversations and having nearly guaranteed access to coworkers. However this VPN metric just seems to be a public excuse, that the decision was made for other reasons. And of course whether this decision is fair to existing remote workers is something else entirely.
According to the website, the Squirt has a 4.06cm blade.
My bad. I converted from the overall length of 2.25", not blade length of 1.6".
Ditto. 64mm > 6cm :^(
A Leatherman Squirt seems to have a 57mm blade. The squirt is a surprisingly capable tool.
Been running Linux for 15 years now, and it's better than it ever has been ...
Yeah, its better. I haven't had to manually enter my monitor's operating frequencies to setup graphics under linux in recent years. ;-)
I used to configure my desktop PCs to dual boot Windows and Linux. I started doing so in the mid 90s. Some tasks were just better performed in a unix environment. I didn't care about the politics of linux, I just wanted a unix environment. In more recent years I've found that Mac OS X fills this role quite well, for both traditional unix tools and whatever FOSS software I want to run. Some folks seem to erroneously equate FOSS with linux but configure; make; make install seems to work just as well under os x for what I've tried. Mac OS X just makes for a better desktop environment. I still use linux, but its running on the headless servers in the closet. I have linux VMs to start up in VMWare should I actually need Linux but I don't think I've started one up in a year. At the time I had to write something that would be deployed on a RHEL box and I started the project at home under CentOS.