Yes what he said. "Cable databases are a revision control system. Each change has a work order, and all the history is retained. Some systems let you extract a drawing of selected connections, but giant wiring diagrams are not too useful."
Combine with audit and check... errors slip in and corrections are critical. Think inventory cycle count.
I'd like to implement some type of software to record where the fiber cables run, what pit number they are jointed in, which fiber is spliced to which, and what internal customer is using which fiber path through the system. Knowing what fibers are free for use is also a requirement, and I'd love to record details of what equipment was put in where, for asset and warranty tracking. Extra points if I can give Engineering access to help them design things better!"
At the risk of appearing less geeky than my peers... use a sketch pad. I'm perfectly serious about this. We've been using building blue prints since the Roman times and they've served humanity pretty well. Expensive software solutions and asset management databases solve the problem too, but they're invariably varying degrees of out of date and did I mention they cost a lot?
Engineers understand blue prints. I know paper is a little 90s, but it works, it's universally understood, and it's cheap. If you were dealing with high level IT people for this, maybe I'd suggest the high priced software solution because they'd be happy to waste hours maintaining it and sending out e-mails reminding people to update the information in it... don't ask me why computer geeks love that kind of overhead, I don't know. I'm guilty of it too.
But these are not those people. They're engineers that block print everything and have marginal computer skills on the best of days. Give them a pencil and tell them to write neatly. You'll save on aspirin.
Gotta agree here. Us network engineers in the biz since the Inet went live use MS Visio and spreadsheets for this. We call them circuit layer records (CLRs) for a low level view. We build higher level circuit maps for the rest.
There is not product that will take care of this issue. This is a documentation skill issue. State govs are like this. Union workers with no brains.
Yes and if you do not give the crew a page to mark up so you can correct it
you are missing the most important bit.
Blue print technology lets you keep a ink an pencil master and print copies
as needed. The printing equipment and material costs for modest sheet
sizes is much less than you might expect.
It is not just union workers with no brains. It is workers and managers
that need glasses. It is working in places where things break.
Combine with well considered spread sheets (Excel) and you are
a well on your way. Supplement with new iPad or iPhone camera
images for stand up show and tell content and Bob's your Uncle.
The #1 criteria is the ability to correct and annotate.
Too many managers put themselves first in the requirement list.
They should however facilitate getting the job done correctly above all.
I've always thought it was a bad idea to build the computer into the screen. The problem is that when the computer becomes outdated, you have to dump a perfectly good screen. I have LCD screens that I've used for many years with different computers as I upgrade the hardware.
And now all the computer screens have migrated to HDTV monitor aspect ratios.
It is my older LED screen that gets used because it is much taller and lets
me read more. The modern screens are always demanding one or
more mouse events to see content from top to bottom.
Web content managers should not bend to the demands of programmers to have
big rich displays to work on. The result looks great on their desktop but pisses
customers off that are smart enough to know...
Yes programmers need a tall screen but their preview screen should be a modest
grandma's laptop. I happen to be in the market for a better screen and it is DARN
difficult to find a screen worth the asking price. Fine if I want to watch a movie
but more expensive than my monster HDTV so I keep shopping and yes graphics
display cards are part of the issue.
There is another advantage Apple has that is almost never disclosed.
The Apple WiFi hardware and TCP/IP stack is so much better than
others.
I had need for a second 5Ghz link and hung a $100 little apple box off to the side of
my Netgear box. I ended up turning the power almost off for both 2.4 and 5Ghz radios
of my Netgear box. The single Apple 5Ghz link is all I need when I thought I needed
two for streaming media.
I suspect it is antennas and software... nothing impossible for others to do but clearly
better WiFi I/O. Folk walking out of the Apple store do get a better product.
All of this information is in the initial filing, which wired posted here, including the fact that the government figured out partial patterns to his passwords. You should read the filing, though I warn you,......
Regardless of the circumstances, ordering someone to decrypt a hard drive should be against the 5th amendment......... The nature of the crime or the amount of other evidence doesn't matter to the 5th amendment.
There is an odd twist and turn in the 5th.
In some cases you can be compelled because the target is not you.
Anyone that is compelled should ponder options one of which might be
as simple as stating "I am exercising my 5th amendment right, I am providing
this password because I am being compelled to and fear for my life and limb.
The key is "You Broke the 5th Amendment by compelling me:@##FCA&&*^(**$%##include math.h|grep PI"
Well, you completely missed the point. Doctors who don't recognize their biases are more likely to misdiagnose patients that they're biased against.
Take me, for example..
Sure... where do you want to be taken?
That is part of the issue.... Patients have bias too.
I recall a lady from my childhood that told the doctor she had XYZ problem.... and she got pills for XYZ.
A couple years later the pills proved to be noneffective so they did surgery to remove her gall bladder.
The surgery discovered ADVANCED cancer... All they could do was stitch her back up....
While the issue about doctor bias is important, patient and family bias are equally important
because as much or more than doctor bias other bias sets the stage as much or more.
I may be wrong here, but I get the impression that the MIPS architecture is much more power efficient than that of the ARM architecture
If they are going to talk about building up a big iron using CPUs which are of high power efficiency, I reckon the MIPS cpu might be more suitable for this task than one from the ARM camp
MIPS is an under invested older but great technology.
Another historic winner was the DEC Alpha.
As the folk at Transmeta (and others) demonstrated logic to decode any random ISA and drive a RISC core faster than the old VAX microcode days is
very possible. This seems to be the way of modern processors. So ARM/x86/x86_64 ISA almost does not matter except to the compiler
and API/ABI folk. If you want to go fast feed your compiler folk well.
Not this week....
I am a fan boy for the small ARM boards... I have built an MPI cluster
out of Raspberry-Pi boards and it is not even close except as a teaching
exercise where it excels.
However many site services can be dedicated to these little boards
where corp IT seems to dedicate virtual machines.
Department Web Servers... with mostly static content... via NFS or
a revision control system like hg.
Department and internal caching name servers... NTP servers and managed central storage for each building or closet.
The impact of the little ARM boards has kicked Intel in their lethargy-loaded-behind. Their next generation
sub 25 Watt systems will take names and kick but as long as IT does not overload them with WindowZ.
IT departments will find that the management advantage of chromebox devices connected to quality screens compelling.
Users will find that flipping open the company ChromeOS laptop will put them on the same page as the big screen
in the office...
It is true that this is not 100% ready for prime time for all of us but the handwriting is on the wall.
I have been playing with the BBB for the last 2 weeks and I must say my first impressions are this is awesome......
Yes for a $45 computer it is quite the thing.
I cannot tell if the Raspberry-Pi or the Beaglebone Black is best
but all I can say is that I am sure glad I live in the future. The teaching
community has already done a lot on the R-Pi but the BBB has a head
start in the hardware add on world. Fun... stuff.
I am very pleased with the software on the BBB. Both are slow compared to
this laptop but hey for $35/$45 they are both astounding.
Depends on the screen you have, I would guess. https://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+screen+wattage&aq=f&oq=laptop+screen+wattage
If you look at the first link there, you'll see that the LCD screen takes up on the order of 5W of power at full brightness. The same paper says that the power usage roughly doubles when you start blasting the CPU. If you use your laptop like I do (I'm in an engineering program at college), that's some nice savings there if they can trim the CPU usage.
Yes screen technology is important.... Pixel Qi technology seems to be ignored and should not
Especially on laptops that mate well with a docking station for "work".
A big quality display at the office is a good thing. Especially on that has
been rotated to be tall. The ability to have a very low power transmissive/ reflective
display while mobile and a serious display at a desk at work is under served.
Docking station tech is lame at best. First the battery charging logic
is flawed. The charger should disconnect from the battery once it is charged.
It should test the battery once an hour thereafter and decide what to do. I cannot
tell you how many batteries I have had die from long term over charging and
lack of correct dynamics in use.
A docking station should have cooling designed to keep the battery as well
as the CPU/logic cool. Most obstruct air flow and do neither well.
I noted that the dam pattern could change direction depending on the refresh rate of my screen
and speed of the GFX card. Not a good test without tight controls of the hardware.
Dart is interesting.... the obvious question is "Why
was Ratfor not popular?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor
The next question is why and how did C++ move from
a preprocessor to become one of the big boys?
The part that I find interesting is how far JS has taken the WEB. Especially
given the flaws in JS. Further the serious security tangle on the WEB
that even Java does not get right begs improvement at many levels and Dart
seems to be a necessary stepping stone.
Yes, creepy...
Another problem is which wire you need to move all that energy into the capacitor in that little time. This applies both to the wire from the wall to the device and the one from the grid to the house (where I live residential contracts are usually limited to 3 kW). I didn't do the math but assuming it's not a problem for a cellphone it might be a problem for a charging a car........
Yes an issue yet for deceleration in a car this is interesting. Not a zero sum game but deceleration power storage for re-acceleration could prove much more efficient. If sufficient brake horsepower power can be stored and recovered all vehicle efficiency could be improved.
"Consuming one alcoholic beverage does not make a person an unsafe driver"
Yes it does. It about doubles the drivers chance of getting involved in a car accident during several hours after consumption of said beverage.
I find the attitude in the comments here rather odd - yet another apparent cultural difference between Americans en Europeans. Where I live (Europe, obviously), you're considered an idiot if you drink and drive, no matter what the law says. Apparently that's not the case in America, where drinking up to the legal limit appears to somehow be considered somewhat of an inalienable right. It is not; it is merely a practical limit.
And wtf is this shit
"NTSB officials said it wasn't their intention to prevent drivers from having a glass of wine with dinner."
What the fuck? By all means it should be the intention of an organization that aims to improve safety to reduce factors that have been proven to double the risk of an accident. What is this? Are all Americans all alcoholics?!
The NTSB may have a good statistical anchor to something else.
If you look at how restaurants book seatings a strong or stronger correlation could be made with time than with BAC.
You never want to be driving near closing time or near the time when restaurants roll in their second seating.
This puts you on the road with others many of which have had that one or two glasses (++) of wine.
My limited view is that the first half to one drink helps the 40-70 year old demographic. In this world of clogged circulatory systems the
dilation of capillaries from the first bit of ethanol helps with reactions, perception, attention and cognition. HOWEVER
after that first drink the game can quickly go downhill. Ethanol is a CNS depressant and does slow you down.
With too many out of control drinkers in my life I have become a near absolute teetotaler when it comes to driving.
As silly as the law is the problems some alcoholics have is manifest and large. I recall a company manager
bemoaning the growing cost of non-alcoholic beverages at company events. Silly fool.
Then drink at home you moron. We've had 0.05 in Australia for Years. It has helped cut the road toll significantly. Stop using excuses for your shitty behaviour. I like a drink, but if I'm going somewhere I need to drive to, I don't drink. Learn some care and respect for others.
It has been a while since I was down under....but,
I was astounded at the low BAC level but given the reality that folk drive on the wrong side of the road it makes sense.
I was also astounded at the low cost of a TAXI trip.
The world needs an application to measure the changes of lights.
Identifying a signal lights would be easier than faces.
Transitions from green to yellow to red would be easy to sense.
The law as I understand it hinges on not entering the intersection
after the light turns yellow. The speed and distance considerations
associated with the green to yellow transition do not change because
the red is set to be quick.
A clever attorney could spot such a camera document it and force a reversal
and repayment of all fines collected by the city and contractor
and make a tidy fee in the process. The contractor can try and hide behind a written
contract at which point the gvment cannot hide. Shield laws only go so far.... especially
if the traffic contains auto tags from multiple states.
Not really. 99% of people won't be willing to reboot just to go to a bank website. And even if they were, a suitably compromised BIOS/EFI could render the additional security worthless.
At which point nothing can be considered reliable. A read only CD/DVD has one advantage in that it cannot be written on. A compromised BIOS/EFI that contains enough functionality to be a problem would be an interesting bit of code. Virtualization however opens some very big buckets of worms.
You really can't completely trust any episode of the Mythbusters where they test the myth on themselves instead of on volunteers because their expectations come into play. They could easily be subject to a placebo effect and because they believe they will perform better or worse, they do. Also, when they perform tests like this, they generally have a sample size of three, which isn't exactly statistically significant.
The Mythbusters aside....
California has already crossed this line.
If you inspect the California BAC chart there
is a 0.01%-0.04 range and a 0.05-0.07% range + with annotations "May" and "Likely" DUI.
Most interesting they say Definitely unlawful if under 21.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/curriculum/Chart%2010%20BAC%20Chart.pdf
The 0.01-0.04 May be DUI category is well below field sobriety testing and may
well fall in the range of using mouthwash before leaving the house..
Since it is possible to have carbs ferment in the gut generating alcohol there is
a risk there. Also Kefir can have 1-2% alcohol and a kid could chug a quart
generating measurable levels.
The issue of measurable levels is interesting. As technology improves lower laws
are being written to take advantage of the technology. i.e. a technology lobby can
get the ear of legislatures and regulators and draft sample legislation that makes
a market where one did not exist. This might be good or bad but just because
the technology exists to measure does not imply that there is an issue to regulate.
My impression from the summary (no, I didn't RTFA) is that the laptop is erased by power cycling its RAM, and the hard drive you are wondering about was erased by being removed from the machine last month and never used again.
Booting from a live CD and pulling data from a thumb drive to read it, there is no need for a hard drive whatsoever. Only RAM and processor registers ever see the data, and nothing usable is retained from them.
Now, how they secure that thumb drive, however, is a mystery solved presumably by reading the article, which I won't.
A live CD makes a lot of sense for any banking. We should all have one in our laptops for financial transactions.
A USB key could be used for something like password safe.
There are unique bits in laptop hardware like the MAC address that can be squashed from software prior to connecting.
One additional trick is to connect via a USB wifi dongel that can act a lot like a burner phone...
Slashdot Mirror
Yes what he said. "Cable databases are a revision control system. Each change has a work order, and all the history is retained. Some systems let you extract a drawing of selected connections, but giant wiring diagrams are not too useful."
Combine with audit and check... errors slip in and corrections are critical. Think inventory cycle count.
I'd like to implement some type of software to record where the fiber cables run, what pit number they are jointed in, which fiber is spliced to which, and what internal customer is using which fiber path through the system. Knowing what fibers are free for use is also a requirement, and I'd love to record details of what equipment was put in where, for asset and warranty tracking. Extra points if I can give Engineering access to help them design things better!"
At the risk of appearing less geeky than my peers... use a sketch pad. I'm perfectly serious about this. We've been using building blue prints since the Roman times and they've served humanity pretty well. Expensive software solutions and asset management databases solve the problem too, but they're invariably varying degrees of out of date and did I mention they cost a lot?
Engineers understand blue prints. I know paper is a little 90s, but it works, it's universally understood, and it's cheap. If you were dealing with high level IT people for this, maybe I'd suggest the high priced software solution because they'd be happy to waste hours maintaining it and sending out e-mails reminding people to update the information in it... don't ask me why computer geeks love that kind of overhead, I don't know. I'm guilty of it too.
But these are not those people. They're engineers that block print everything and have marginal computer skills on the best of days. Give them a pencil and tell them to write neatly. You'll save on aspirin.
Gotta agree here. Us network engineers in the biz since the Inet went live use MS Visio and spreadsheets for this. We call them circuit layer records (CLRs) for a low level view. We build higher level circuit maps for the rest.
There is not product that will take care of this issue. This is a documentation skill issue. State govs are like this. Union workers with no brains.
Yes and if you do not give the crew a page to mark up so you can correct it you are missing the most important bit.
Blue print technology lets you keep a ink an pencil master and print copies as needed. The printing equipment and material costs for modest sheet sizes is much less than you might expect.
It is not just union workers with no brains. It is workers and managers that need glasses. It is working in places where things break.
Combine with well considered spread sheets (Excel) and you are a well on your way. Supplement with new iPad or iPhone camera images for stand up show and tell content and Bob's your Uncle.
The #1 criteria is the ability to correct and annotate.
Too many managers put themselves first in the requirement list.
They should however facilitate getting the job done correctly above all.
I've always thought it was a bad idea to build the computer into the screen. The problem is that when the computer becomes outdated, you have to dump a perfectly good screen. I have LCD screens that I've used for many years with different computers as I upgrade the hardware.
And now all the computer screens have migrated to HDTV monitor aspect ratios.
It is my older LED screen that gets used because it is much taller and lets me read more. The modern screens are always demanding one or more mouse events to see content from top to bottom.
Web content managers should not bend to the demands of programmers to have big rich displays to work on. The result looks great on their desktop but pisses customers off that are smart enough to know...
Yes programmers need a tall screen but their preview screen should be a modest grandma's laptop. I happen to be in the market for a better screen and it is DARN difficult to find a screen worth the asking price. Fine if I want to watch a movie but more expensive than my monster HDTV so I keep shopping and yes graphics display cards are part of the issue.
apples price for the same thing $1800 base
There is another advantage Apple has that is almost never disclosed.
The Apple WiFi hardware and TCP/IP stack is so much better than others.
I had need for a second 5Ghz link and hung a $100 little apple box off to the side of my Netgear box. I ended up turning the power almost off for both 2.4 and 5Ghz radios of my Netgear box. The single Apple 5Ghz link is all I need when I thought I needed two for streaming media.
I suspect it is antennas and software... nothing impossible for others to do but clearly better WiFi I/O. Folk walking out of the Apple store do get a better product.
All of this information is in the initial filing, which wired posted here, including the fact that the government figured out partial patterns to his passwords. You should read the filing, though I warn you, ......
Regardless of the circumstances, ordering someone to decrypt a hard drive should be against the 5th amendment. ........ The nature of the crime or the amount of other evidence doesn't matter to the 5th amendment.
There is an odd twist and turn in the 5th.
In some cases you can be compelled because the target is not you.
Anyone that is compelled should ponder options one of which might be
as simple as stating "I am exercising my 5th amendment right, I am providing
this password because I am being compelled to and fear for my life and limb.
The key is "You Broke the 5th Amendment by compelling me:@##FCA&&*^(**$%##include math.h|grep PI"
Well, you completely missed the point. Doctors who don't recognize their biases are more likely to misdiagnose patients that they're biased against.
Take me, for example. .
Sure... where do you want to be taken?
That is part of the issue.... Patients have bias too.
I recall a lady from my childhood that told the doctor she had XYZ problem.... and she got pills for XYZ.
A couple years later the pills proved to be noneffective so they did surgery to remove her gall bladder.
The surgery discovered ADVANCED cancer... All they could do was stitch her back up....
While the issue about doctor bias is important, patient and family bias are equally important because as much or more than doctor bias other bias sets the stage as much or more.
I may be wrong here, but I get the impression that the MIPS architecture is much more power efficient than that of the ARM architecture
If they are going to talk about building up a big iron using CPUs which are of high power efficiency, I reckon the MIPS cpu might be more suitable for this task than one from the ARM camp
MIPS is an under invested older but great technology.
Another historic winner was the DEC Alpha.
As the folk at Transmeta (and others) demonstrated logic to decode any random ISA and drive a RISC core faster than the old VAX microcode days is very possible. This seems to be the way of modern processors. So ARM/x86/x86_64 ISA almost does not matter except to the compiler and API/ABI folk. If you want to go fast feed your compiler folk well.
I am a fan boy for the small ARM boards... I have built an MPI cluster out of Raspberry-Pi boards and it is not even close except as a teaching exercise where it excels.
However many site services can be dedicated to these little boards where corp IT seems to dedicate virtual machines.
Department Web Servers... with mostly static content... via NFS or a revision control system like hg.
Department and internal caching name servers... NTP servers and managed central storage for each building or closet.
The impact of the little ARM boards has kicked Intel in their lethargy-loaded-behind. Their next generation sub 25 Watt systems will take names and kick but as long as IT does not overload them with WindowZ.
IT departments will find that the management advantage of chromebox devices connected to quality screens compelling.
Users will find that flipping open the company ChromeOS laptop will put them on the same page as the big screen in the office...
It is true that this is not 100% ready for prime time for all of us but the handwriting is on the wall.
I have been playing with the BBB for the last 2 weeks and I must say my first impressions are this is awesome ......
Yes for a $45 computer it is quite the thing.
I cannot tell if the Raspberry-Pi or the Beaglebone Black is best but all I can say is that I am sure glad I live in the future. The teaching community has already done a lot on the R-Pi but the BBB has a head start in the hardware add on world. Fun... stuff.
I am very pleased with the software on the BBB. Both are slow compared to this laptop but hey for $35/$45 they are both astounding.
Depends on the screen you have, I would guess. https://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+screen+wattage&aq=f&oq=laptop+screen+wattage If you look at the first link there, you'll see that the LCD screen takes up on the order of 5W of power at full brightness. The same paper says that the power usage roughly doubles when you start blasting the CPU. If you use your laptop like I do (I'm in an engineering program at college), that's some nice savings there if they can trim the CPU usage.
Yes screen technology is important.... Pixel Qi technology seems to be ignored and should not
Especially on laptops that mate well with a docking station for "work".
A big quality display at the office is a good thing. Especially on that has been rotated to be tall. The ability to have a very low power transmissive/ reflective display while mobile and a serious display at a desk at work is under served.
Docking station tech is lame at best. First the battery charging logic is flawed. The charger should disconnect from the battery once it is charged. It should test the battery once an hour thereafter and decide what to do. I cannot tell you how many batteries I have had die from long term over charging and lack of correct dynamics in use.
A docking station should have cooling designed to keep the battery as well as the CPU/logic cool. Most obstruct air flow and do neither well.
I noted that the dam pattern could change direction depending on the refresh rate of my screen and speed of the GFX card. Not a good test without tight controls of the hardware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor
The next question is why and how did C++ move from a preprocessor to become one of the big boys?
The part that I find interesting is how far JS has taken the WEB. Especially given the flaws in JS. Further the serious security tangle on the WEB that even Java does not get right begs improvement at many levels and Dart seems to be a necessary stepping stone.
Field programmable logic folk rejoyce.
Update the initialization EEROM and the hardware is covered by yet another patent.
Yes, creepy... Another problem is which wire you need to move all that energy into the capacitor in that little time. This applies both to the wire from the wall to the device and the one from the grid to the house (where I live residential contracts are usually limited to 3 kW). I didn't do the math but assuming it's not a problem for a cellphone it might be a problem for a charging a car ........
Yes an issue yet for deceleration in a car this is interesting. Not a zero sum game but deceleration power storage for re-acceleration could prove much more efficient. If sufficient brake horsepower power can be stored and recovered all vehicle efficiency could be improved.
Solved. Google Glass, and Microsoft Kinect, and that camera in your laptop (but I guess you have some control over that for now)
Belt buckle cameras to get clear images of random B-*obs in elevators and other almost private places. All part of the war against oral......
"Consuming one alcoholic beverage does not make a person an unsafe driver"
Yes it does. It about doubles the drivers chance of getting involved in a car accident during several hours after consumption of said beverage.
I find the attitude in the comments here rather odd - yet another apparent cultural difference between Americans en Europeans. Where I live (Europe, obviously), you're considered an idiot if you drink and drive, no matter what the law says. Apparently that's not the case in America, where drinking up to the legal limit appears to somehow be considered somewhat of an inalienable right. It is not; it is merely a practical limit.
And wtf is this shit
"NTSB officials said it wasn't their intention to prevent drivers from having a glass of wine with dinner."
What the fuck? By all means it should be the intention of an organization that aims to improve safety to reduce factors that have been proven to double the risk of an accident. What is this? Are all Americans all alcoholics?!
The NTSB may have a good statistical anchor to something else.
If you look at how restaurants book seatings a strong or stronger correlation could be made with time than with BAC.
You never want to be driving near closing time or near the time when restaurants roll in their second seating. This puts you on the road with others many of which have had that one or two glasses (++) of wine.
My limited view is that the first half to one drink helps the 40-70 year old demographic. In this world of clogged circulatory systems the dilation of capillaries from the first bit of ethanol helps with reactions, perception, attention and cognition. HOWEVER after that first drink the game can quickly go downhill. Ethanol is a CNS depressant and does slow you down.
With too many out of control drinkers in my life I have become a near absolute teetotaler when it comes to driving. As silly as the law is the problems some alcoholics have is manifest and large. I recall a company manager bemoaning the growing cost of non-alcoholic beverages at company events. Silly fool.
Then drink at home you moron. We've had 0.05 in Australia for Years. It has helped cut the road toll significantly. Stop using excuses for your shitty behaviour. I like a drink, but if I'm going somewhere I need to drive to, I don't drink. Learn some care and respect for others.
It has been a while since I was down under....but,
I was astounded at the low BAC level but given the reality that folk drive on the wrong side of the road it makes sense.
I was also astounded at the low cost of a TAXI trip.
Good place to visit with friends...
The world needs an application to measure the changes of lights.
Identifying a signal lights would be easier than faces.
Transitions from green to yellow to red would be easy to sense.
The law as I understand it hinges on not entering the intersection after the light turns yellow. The speed and distance considerations associated with the green to yellow transition do not change because the red is set to be quick.
A clever attorney could spot such a camera document it and force a reversal and repayment of all fines collected by the city and contractor and make a tidy fee in the process. The contractor can try and hide behind a written contract at which point the gvment cannot hide. Shield laws only go so far.... especially if the traffic contains auto tags from multiple states.
Not really. 99% of people won't be willing to reboot just to go to a bank website. And even if they were, a suitably compromised BIOS/EFI could render the additional security worthless.
At which point nothing can be considered reliable. A read only CD/DVD has one advantage in that it cannot be written on. A compromised BIOS/EFI that contains enough functionality to be a problem would be an interesting bit of code. Virtualization however opens some very big buckets of worms.
I truly hope you sincerely thought that was funny because it would give me hope for Slashdot yet.
;-)
$ csh
$ Why rub two sticks together?
Why: No match.
Quagmire.
I suspect that anyone in the business would do well to pull down a snapshot of their site and this discussion.
One can clearly challenge their valuation and subpoena their payment records for content they have not complied with.
It makes sense to "Be Safe in a Dark Movie Theatre"
You really can't completely trust any episode of the Mythbusters where they test the myth on themselves instead of on volunteers because their expectations come into play. They could easily be subject to a placebo effect and because they believe they will perform better or worse, they do. Also, when they perform tests like this, they generally have a sample size of three, which isn't exactly statistically significant.
The Mythbusters aside....
California has already crossed this line.
If you inspect the California BAC chart there is a 0.01%-0.04 range and a 0.05-0.07% range + with annotations "May" and "Likely" DUI.
Most interesting they say Definitely unlawful if under 21. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/curriculum/Chart%2010%20BAC%20Chart.pdf The 0.01-0.04 May be DUI category is well below field sobriety testing and may well fall in the range of using mouthwash before leaving the house..
Since it is possible to have carbs ferment in the gut generating alcohol there is a risk there. Also Kefir can have 1-2% alcohol and a kid could chug a quart generating measurable levels.
The issue of measurable levels is interesting. As technology improves lower laws are being written to take advantage of the technology. i.e. a technology lobby can get the ear of legislatures and regulators and draft sample legislation that makes a market where one did not exist. This might be good or bad but just because the technology exists to measure does not imply that there is an issue to regulate.
But all directions from the Poll are south.
How can they say it is migrating east to Greenland?
My impression from the summary (no, I didn't RTFA) is that the laptop is erased by power cycling its RAM, and the hard drive you are wondering about was erased by being removed from the machine last month and never used again.
Booting from a live CD and pulling data from a thumb drive to read it, there is no need for a hard drive whatsoever. Only RAM and processor registers ever see the data, and nothing usable is retained from them.
Now, how they secure that thumb drive, however, is a mystery solved presumably by reading the article, which I won't.
A live CD makes a lot of sense for any banking. We should all have one in our laptops for financial transactions. A USB key could be used for something like password safe.
There are unique bits in laptop hardware like the MAC address that can be squashed from software prior to connecting.
One additional trick is to connect via a USB wifi dongel that can act a lot like a burner phone...