More sadly is that you are comparing a flu pandemic to a fictional zombie problem which hasn't and most likely never will.
Why is that sad? While a zombie apocalypse will likely never happen, it's still a useful model for studying how diseases spread. Whether it's spread by bite or by some other method, the net effect is still the same. Besides, some diseases are spread by bite.
Or you could, you know, not be an idiot and realize that I was attacking the message. The message is that their kids don't need technology; they'd do just as well fishing with dad. It was a stupid message at best.
That wasn't the message I got from the post... the message I read out of it was that if parents spent more time being, you know, parents, then kids wouldn't need to substitute electronic gadgets for them. The rise of kids using electronic toys is not new... I know people who were raised by their nintendos in the 1980's, and the Simpsons was making jokes about the kids being raised by the TV 20 years ago. The solution isn't to throw the technology out the window, though, it's to be a more involved parent, and it always has been.
How's the battery life on the c7? It's got an x86 processor in it, which is the main reason I haven't replaced my existing 13" ultraportable with something like that.
There's a more recent build of that particular distro for it, but that's the instructions for how to do it. That's not a chroot, it's a native boot. You can, if you choose, nuke the chrome partition entirely and go fully native.
Cute. The company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does. So It would be like someone name McDonald buying a burger company, or somebody named Ford buying an automobile manufacturer
The reason the company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does is because he founded the company in the 1980's. It later went public, and this is not the first time he's tried to take it private again. Many, many times over the years, he's made large stock buys/sells in the company to try to force an adjustment to the share price and/or reassure investors.
Obligatory disclaimer: I used to work for the company, and while I wouldn't say he's a friend, I've met him several times.
Yes, there is. And the electricity it consumes while being used is a very small part of that equation. The lion's share of the energy it consumes is the energy to produce it: shipping, resource extraction/refinement, manufacture, etc.
If you already have a device that works perfectly, but uses 100W more, it's better for the environment that you continue using it and not replace it if you don't need to.
You bought a dud, then. I have a 42" 1080p LCD HDTV, which was bought when $2500 was a good deal for a TV that size, and it is still working perfectly. It's going to continue in its current job until it dies, but it has already well outlived your 3 year timeline.
Perhaps, but you'll run into exactly the same problem that 1st gen Kindles have: eventually they no longer work because the cellular networks they connected to are gone.
Besides... the kind of people they usually want to spy on are not in the same demographic that would buy an expensive/big screen TV. Nobody's denying that what you describe is possible, but there's a huge economic consideration which would make it impractical to consider as a surveillance technique. If they want to listen to what's happening in your living room, there are much easier ways to bug it, some of which don't even require that they have physical access to it. We had laser microphones decades ago, and I would be *extremely* surprised if it wasn't possible to use one from an airborne drone by now.
Duck tape is named because it's a water-resistant cloth-based tape. ("Like water off a duck's back...") It absolutely should *NOT* be used on ducts, under any circumstances, because the adhesive it uses does not stand up well to temperature variance.
HVAC tape uses a completely different type of adhesive, and is metallized to give it better heat conductivity. That stuff is designed specifically for use on ducts, and until "Duck tape" subverted the name (presumably because some people can't hear the difference between "Duct" and "Duck"), was known as duct tape.
If you'd bothered to read the comment thread in its entirety, you'd see that I posted, in quite plain English, that I have no opinion one way or the other about whether the instruction in question represents good crypto, because I don't know enough about the quality of numbers being generated.
The comment you're replying to was in response to somebody claiming that in order to disable the instruction entirely, you only have to pass an argument to the kernel. Clearly, that doesn't disable it entirely, as stated in the comment that he pasted into his own reply.
Of course, this being Slashdot, people don't give a shit about context, and reading is for the weak.
Not true... I have no opinion either way, but it's entirely possible to have a very good understanding of how semi-random numbers affect cryptography, and also of how rdrand generates them, without having the programming background to be able to safely remove it from the kernel. Crypto is about math, not programming, and contrary to popular opinion (apparently), the two do not always go hand-in-hand.
It's not as simple as just commenting out a few lines of code. As likely as not, if you were to simply comment out a few lines you'd actually introduce another bug which could be worse for security. The Linux kernel is arcane, and even experienced/good programmers avoid making modifications they don't have to. What you're proposing is he fork it, and make a new release of the kernel *every time Linux releases one*, in order to comment out a feature that may not have enough entropy to be suitable for crypto. (I don't know one way or the other, but I'm guessing you don't either).
Their business line of laptops still comes with NBD onsite warranty. If it was as shitty as you claim, they'd be bankrupt.
I have a 2-year old Vostro v130n laptop that still works like the day I bought it. The only part that isn't original is the hard drive, and that's not because it failed, it's because I wanted to switch to an SSD.
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me:)
You didn't have top secret, then. My clearance when I was in military signals took 2 years to come through, and meant that not only wasn't I a risk, nobody in my immediate family or circle of friends was a risk either. They actually delayed giving me clearance because one of my idiot friends in high school joined the Communist party when he was in University. (and I graduated high school in 2000).
Tarot is probably more accurate, since most people who do tarot will ask probing questions (that are usually answered honestly) before doing the reading...;)
Your bank probably has a legitimate reason to know it as well.... though I'm in Canada, and we have different rules from the US.
A partial Social Insurance Number was on my Equifax credit report last time I pulled it, and I've taken out large loans from the bank before. (> $30,000... I financed a new car through the bank... slightly higher interest than the "1.9%" that the car company was offering, but with the option to pay out early where the car company didn't meant that my loan was paid off faster and ended up costing less).
are there airlines that charge you for even a single under-the-seat bag?
Probably some of the super-ultra-mega discount ones, but I have never flown such an airline. (cheapest/lowest end I've ever personally flown was Air Canada/Jazz... for trips to Europe, I usually take Air France or British Airways depending on where I'm flying to/from, though I've flown Lufthansa, too. My aunt is the one who regularly took Ryanair when she was in Europe).
Having a change of clothes stuffed in your laptop bag or a backpack isn't a bad idea... the point was mostly about not bringing a suitcase.:)
Ryanair is fine if you don't bring any luggage beyond your purse/carry-on. Though I wouldn't expect a 5-star inflight meal.
I know people who travel with no luggage at all... just go to a consignment on arrival to buy some outfits, and donate to a charity before leaving. Works remarkably well for them, and not actually much more expensive than paying overage fees. Also, if they're flying domestically, they get a tax writeoff for the donation (though that bit works better in big countries like Canada or the US... where Ryanair doesn't fly.;))
Diesel is truly renewable as well... we can make it from vegetable oil ridiculously easily (and some diesel engines can run on raw vegetable oil). Hell, there's some strains of algae that literally shit it out... put them in a sugar-water solution, give them enough heat, and they will make diesel for you. Put them in the dark so they don't waste energy on photosynthesis, and they make more (as long as they have enough glucose).
The problem isn't that renewable energy sources don't exist. Many of them can even be used with our current technology. It's that the non-renewable stuff is cheaper/easier to extract. We're far more likely to see a switch to diesel instead of gasoline/coal in the future than we are hydrogen fuel cells, especially with the NIMBY folks going after nuclear, wind, and solar. (Nuclear, in spite of events like Chernobyl, 3-mile Island, and Fukushima, is still safer/cleaner than the coal we're replacing nuclear with). Personally, I'd like to see a switch to Thorium reactors, but that's not bloody likely, despite Thorium being *way* more common than Uranium, and less dangerous to boot.
Just put the data on a MicroSD card in your phone. It won't show up in the phone's music library or pictures so if they just casually search the phone they won't find it (assuming you don't have a file browser on the phone). You can retrieve the data by plugging your phone into the computer and mounting it as a thumb drive. If you want to distract them, have another thumb drive with your relatively innocuous stuff on your keyring.
I've had border guards poke around and make sure that the phone's not a bomb. I've had them comment that I liked some of the same music they did. I've never had them remove the SD card and make a copy of its contents.
Immigration for the purposes of, you know, immigrating, is different from entering the country for a 14-day stay.
They do not require your banking details if you're just visiting, and I have never heard a case of them requiring your e-mail details. Besides which, they could get most of that without your permission quite easily if they wanted to.
features break every time facebook updates their interface, but they're usually fixed in short order. I've been using it for years, and it does make the experience less annoying.
Lack of ability to clear the cache at all is why I stopped using Firefox on my tablet, actually... Still haven't found a browser that has as much privacy as I would like, but at least Dolphin lets me turn off cookies entirely and clear history/cache on exit.
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More sadly is that you are comparing a flu pandemic to a fictional zombie problem which hasn't and most likely never will.
Why is that sad? While a zombie apocalypse will likely never happen, it's still a useful model for studying how diseases spread. Whether it's spread by bite or by some other method, the net effect is still the same. Besides, some diseases are spread by bite.
Or you could, you know, not be an idiot and realize that I was attacking the message. The message is that their kids don't need technology; they'd do just as well fishing with dad. It was a stupid message at best.
That wasn't the message I got from the post... the message I read out of it was that if parents spent more time being, you know, parents, then kids wouldn't need to substitute electronic gadgets for them. The rise of kids using electronic toys is not new... I know people who were raised by their nintendos in the 1980's, and the Simpsons was making jokes about the kids being raised by the TV 20 years ago. The solution isn't to throw the technology out the window, though, it's to be a more involved parent, and it always has been.
How's the battery life on the c7? It's got an x86 processor in it, which is the main reason I haven't replaced my existing 13" ultraportable with something like that.
You'd be mistaken...
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.ca/2012/12/bodhi-armhf-alpha-for-samsung-chromebook.html
There's a more recent build of that particular distro for it, but that's the instructions for how to do it. That's not a chroot, it's a native boot. You can, if you choose, nuke the chrome partition entirely and go fully native.
Cute. The company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does. So It would be like someone name McDonald buying a burger company, or somebody named Ford buying an automobile manufacturer
The reason the company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does is because he founded the company in the 1980's. It later went public, and this is not the first time he's tried to take it private again. Many, many times over the years, he's made large stock buys/sells in the company to try to force an adjustment to the share price and/or reassure investors.
Obligatory disclaimer: I used to work for the company, and while I wouldn't say he's a friend, I've met him several times.
It is just client side, and it does still work.
They blocked the Facebook fan page for it.
Yes, there is. And the electricity it consumes while being used is a very small part of that equation. The lion's share of the energy it consumes is the energy to produce it: shipping, resource extraction/refinement, manufacture, etc.
If you already have a device that works perfectly, but uses 100W more, it's better for the environment that you continue using it and not replace it if you don't need to.
You bought a dud, then. I have a 42" 1080p LCD HDTV, which was bought when $2500 was a good deal for a TV that size, and it is still working perfectly. It's going to continue in its current job until it dies, but it has already well outlived your 3 year timeline.
Perhaps, but you'll run into exactly the same problem that 1st gen Kindles have: eventually they no longer work because the cellular networks they connected to are gone.
Besides... the kind of people they usually want to spy on are not in the same demographic that would buy an expensive/big screen TV. Nobody's denying that what you describe is possible, but there's a huge economic consideration which would make it impractical to consider as a surveillance technique. If they want to listen to what's happening in your living room, there are much easier ways to bug it, some of which don't even require that they have physical access to it. We had laser microphones decades ago, and I would be *extremely* surprised if it wasn't possible to use one from an airborne drone by now.
Most computer monitors support HDCP these days.
Also, most BluRay players will gracefully degrade the signal if it fails HDCP negotiation. You'll get picture, but it won't be 1080p.
Duck tape is named because it's a water-resistant cloth-based tape. ("Like water off a duck's back...") It absolutely should *NOT* be used on ducts, under any circumstances, because the adhesive it uses does not stand up well to temperature variance.
HVAC tape uses a completely different type of adhesive, and is metallized to give it better heat conductivity. That stuff is designed specifically for use on ducts, and until "Duck tape" subverted the name (presumably because some people can't hear the difference between "Duct" and "Duck"), was known as duct tape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#Usage_on_ductwork
If you'd bothered to read the comment thread in its entirety, you'd see that I posted, in quite plain English, that I have no opinion one way or the other about whether the instruction in question represents good crypto, because I don't know enough about the quality of numbers being generated.
The comment you're replying to was in response to somebody claiming that in order to disable the instruction entirely, you only have to pass an argument to the kernel. Clearly, that doesn't disable it entirely, as stated in the comment that he pasted into his own reply.
Of course, this being Slashdot, people don't give a shit about context, and reading is for the weak.
Not true... I have no opinion either way, but it's entirely possible to have a very good understanding of how semi-random numbers affect cryptography, and also of how rdrand generates them, without having the programming background to be able to safely remove it from the kernel. Crypto is about math, not programming, and contrary to popular opinion (apparently), the two do not always go hand-in-hand.
It's not as simple as just commenting out a few lines of code. As likely as not, if you were to simply comment out a few lines you'd actually introduce another bug which could be worse for security. The Linux kernel is arcane, and even experienced/good programmers avoid making modifications they don't have to. What you're proposing is he fork it, and make a new release of the kernel *every time Linux releases one*, in order to comment out a feature that may not have enough entropy to be suitable for crypto. (I don't know one way or the other, but I'm guessing you don't either).
Their consumer line is somewhat lackluster, yes.
Their business line of laptops still comes with NBD onsite warranty. If it was as shitty as you claim, they'd be bankrupt.
I have a 2-year old Vostro v130n laptop that still works like the day I bought it. The only part that isn't original is the hard drive, and that's not because it failed, it's because I wanted to switch to an SSD.
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me :)
You didn't have top secret, then. My clearance when I was in military signals took 2 years to come through, and meant that not only wasn't I a risk, nobody in my immediate family or circle of friends was a risk either. They actually delayed giving me clearance because one of my idiot friends in high school joined the Communist party when he was in University. (and I graduated high school in 2000).
Tarot is probably more accurate, since most people who do tarot will ask probing questions (that are usually answered honestly) before doing the reading... ;)
Your bank probably has a legitimate reason to know it as well.... though I'm in Canada, and we have different rules from the US.
A partial Social Insurance Number was on my Equifax credit report last time I pulled it, and I've taken out large loans from the bank before. (> $30,000... I financed a new car through the bank... slightly higher interest than the "1.9%" that the car company was offering, but with the option to pay out early where the car company didn't meant that my loan was paid off faster and ended up costing less).
are there airlines that charge you for even a single under-the-seat bag?
Probably some of the super-ultra-mega discount ones, but I have never flown such an airline. (cheapest/lowest end I've ever personally flown was Air Canada/Jazz... for trips to Europe, I usually take Air France or British Airways depending on where I'm flying to/from, though I've flown Lufthansa, too. My aunt is the one who regularly took Ryanair when she was in Europe).
Having a change of clothes stuffed in your laptop bag or a backpack isn't a bad idea... the point was mostly about not bringing a suitcase. :)
Ryanair is fine if you don't bring any luggage beyond your purse/carry-on. Though I wouldn't expect a 5-star inflight meal.
I know people who travel with no luggage at all... just go to a consignment on arrival to buy some outfits, and donate to a charity before leaving. Works remarkably well for them, and not actually much more expensive than paying overage fees. Also, if they're flying domestically, they get a tax writeoff for the donation (though that bit works better in big countries like Canada or the US... where Ryanair doesn't fly. ;))
Diesel is truly renewable as well... we can make it from vegetable oil ridiculously easily (and some diesel engines can run on raw vegetable oil). Hell, there's some strains of algae that literally shit it out... put them in a sugar-water solution, give them enough heat, and they will make diesel for you. Put them in the dark so they don't waste energy on photosynthesis, and they make more (as long as they have enough glucose).
The problem isn't that renewable energy sources don't exist. Many of them can even be used with our current technology. It's that the non-renewable stuff is cheaper/easier to extract. We're far more likely to see a switch to diesel instead of gasoline/coal in the future than we are hydrogen fuel cells, especially with the NIMBY folks going after nuclear, wind, and solar. (Nuclear, in spite of events like Chernobyl, 3-mile Island, and Fukushima, is still safer/cleaner than the coal we're replacing nuclear with). Personally, I'd like to see a switch to Thorium reactors, but that's not bloody likely, despite Thorium being *way* more common than Uranium, and less dangerous to boot.
Just put the data on a MicroSD card in your phone. It won't show up in the phone's music library or pictures so if they just casually search the phone they won't find it (assuming you don't have a file browser on the phone). You can retrieve the data by plugging your phone into the computer and mounting it as a thumb drive. If you want to distract them, have another thumb drive with your relatively innocuous stuff on your keyring.
I've had border guards poke around and make sure that the phone's not a bomb. I've had them comment that I liked some of the same music they did. I've never had them remove the SD card and make a copy of its contents.
Immigration for the purposes of, you know, immigrating, is different from entering the country for a 14-day stay.
They do not require your banking details if you're just visiting, and I have never heard a case of them requiring your e-mail details. Besides which, they could get most of that without your permission quite easily if they wanted to.
features break every time facebook updates their interface, but they're usually fixed in short order. I've been using it for years, and it does make the experience less annoying.
Lack of ability to clear the cache at all is why I stopped using Firefox on my tablet, actually... Still haven't found a browser that has as much privacy as I would like, but at least Dolphin lets me turn off cookies entirely and clear history/cache on exit.