The first thing the enemy would do after seeing (or more likely HEARING) this thing coming would be to panic and scatter. I think a nice mortar would be much more effective, and cheaper.
Actually yes, if the same username and password is used to log into 2 websites owned by the same company, why would you expect the information NOT to be shared?!?
Speed limit signs are not just randomly placed on roads. They actually mark the ends/beginings of different speed sections of the road. That's of course not counting the ones in the middle of the speed section that simply reminds drivers.
Right, so when you hit black ice and t-bone a car with a child that now need surgery to fix their shattered leg, are YOU going to be able to pay for that? A two car collision with serious injuries can easily cause close to a million dollars in medical costs. People that think insurance is to pay for their (and the other guy's) broken car are deluding themselves.
Actually, most auto mechanics will give you a quote, then take money OFF if you tell them you aren't using your insurance. Auto mechanics always charge insurance companies more because the insurance company is more worried other stuff than saving $100 on that new bumper and quarter panel.
I didn't ask for exact specs. I asked for something that meets or exceeds 3 simple specs, a configuration that is available on at least 5 windows machines from 5 different manufacturers. Cederic (above) was able to find one, but only for Europe (though I never specified North America).
Wow, those are actually pretty good deals. I guess I never found them because I'm on the other side of the world. Canadians get shafted again I guess..
I actually read somewhere that the main reason NASA uses old laptops and computers is that the new hardware (nanometer cpu's/etc) are made so small that they can't tollerate the radiation. Sort of like how SNES's live for 2 decades and PS3's last 2 years.
I'm fairly certain it's actually an exponential problem. Run 3 times the power through a traditional lightbulb and watch it "poof" in a second. Run a quarter of the power through and it could last a century (the oldest running lightbuld in the world runs at a fairly low wattage).
I *defy* you to find a laptop that get over 5 hours of battery with a screen larger than 10" and a higher vertical resolution than 600px without windows pre-installed. There is the Lenovo x220 (freedos no longer offered), Asus zenbook, Toshiba ux-31, Acer aspire S3 and HP folio. NONE of those are offered without windows, even on special request. Trust me, I *TRIED*.
Contrary to popular tv shows, the police NEVER perform data retrieval on the original hardware. The machine is kept "alive" (usually via UPS) until the RAM can be dumped, then the machine os hard-killed (to avoid shutdown-triggered destruction triggers). After all that, the hard drive(s) is removed and connected to a device that is court-proven not to modify anything on the original disk and imaged to a drive that is then inserted into a controlled computer which performs the data retrieval. This is pretty much standard practice in data forensics.
It's been fairly clearly defined in the past that you are not in any way expected to aid the police during the execution of a warrant, providing keys, passwords, etc is not required be it for the front door, a safe, a computer, etc. You may OFFER to provide them (so they don't need to damage your front door), but you are undre NO obligation to do so.
Cool, so now it impossible to access the websites from any other computer. With OpenID you can set up sms, e-mail, password, browser certificate (same as browserID appears to do), or even having a special usb button next to your home server connected to a serial port to authenticate you.
I never said it WAS. I said it would be similar to something in between (taking a few, but not all, qualities of the two and combinign them into something new).
When you mentioned "jaibreaking deaths that occured" sarcastically, I assumed you were talking about Android/iOS/winCE devices that already do just that.
I DID in fact read it. Most of the arguments showing that offering alternatives cost money (support training, images, testing, etc) become completely irrelevant when the machine is sold bare. The only relevant one is the confusion on the part of customers, but changing the wording from "Comes with linux, may not be compatible with other software" to "Does not include windows, operating system must be purchased or acquired separately" would bring those numbers to near zero. Customers already understand that tax software, word processing (other than the short trial), etc need to be purchased (or otherwise acquired) separately and "windows" would simply become another item on that list.
And how could you possibly live with yourself knowing one day you might be the one infected with the super flu virus, created in a lab due to the research you allowed, that kills everyone?
Pretty sure he wouldn't be doing much of anything actually.
No, but if someone got the work as public domain (with a public domain notice attached) and were never told that it had magically become NOT public domain, then sent someone else a copy (believing it to STILL be public domain), that is about half-way between entrapment and ex post facto. This gets even WORSE when businesses (big or small) USED these public domain works as part of their identity (logos, etc) or murchandise (t-shirts, pins, stickers, emblems). Imagine if snow white, pocahontas and cinderella suddenly became owned by some guy in Florida, Disney would be SCREWED if they continued selling those before finding out.
How the hell do they expect to inform every person that has a copy of the ex-public-domain works and tell them "By the way, your logo is now illegal because the clouds you used in the background are now copyrighted".
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The first thing the enemy would do after seeing (or more likely HEARING) this thing coming would be to panic and scatter. I think a nice mortar would be much more effective, and cheaper.
Actually yes, if the same username and password is used to log into 2 websites owned by the same company, why would you expect the information NOT to be shared?!?
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Speed limit signs are not just randomly placed on roads. They actually mark the ends/beginings of different speed sections of the road. That's of course not counting the ones in the middle of the speed section that simply reminds drivers.
Right, so when you hit black ice and t-bone a car with a child that now need surgery to fix their shattered leg, are YOU going to be able to pay for that? A two car collision with serious injuries can easily cause close to a million dollars in medical costs. People that think insurance is to pay for their (and the other guy's) broken car are deluding themselves.
Actually, most auto mechanics will give you a quote, then take money OFF if you tell them you aren't using your insurance. Auto mechanics always charge insurance companies more because the insurance company is more worried other stuff than saving $100 on that new bumper and quarter panel.
I didn't ask for exact specs. I asked for something that meets or exceeds 3 simple specs, a configuration that is available on at least 5 windows machines from 5 different manufacturers. Cederic (above) was able to find one, but only for Europe (though I never specified North America).
Wow, those are actually pretty good deals. I guess I never found them because I'm on the other side of the world. Canadians get shafted again I guess..
I actually read somewhere that the main reason NASA uses old laptops and computers is that the new hardware (nanometer cpu's/etc) are made so small that they can't tollerate the radiation. Sort of like how SNES's live for 2 decades and PS3's last 2 years.
I'm fairly certain it's actually an exponential problem. Run 3 times the power through a traditional lightbulb and watch it "poof" in a second. Run a quarter of the power through and it could last a century (the oldest running lightbuld in the world runs at a fairly low wattage).
I *defy* you to find a laptop that get over 5 hours of battery with a screen larger than 10" and a higher vertical resolution than 600px without windows pre-installed. There is the Lenovo x220 (freedos no longer offered), Asus zenbook, Toshiba ux-31, Acer aspire S3 and HP folio. NONE of those are offered without windows, even on special request. Trust me, I *TRIED*.
This option was removed about 6 months ago. I know because I spent 2 hours trying to GET that deal last month.
This was in Canada. PLEASE stop lumping Canadians in with our southern neighbours.
IronKey's are a WHOLE nother ball of wax. I was just pointing out that auto-destruct software on your computer is not going to work in most cases.
I should clarify, I meant our *blank* CD's!
We tried that. They called "pirate" and got a tax put on all our CD's. Any more bright ideas?
Contrary to popular tv shows, the police NEVER perform data retrieval on the original hardware. The machine is kept "alive" (usually via UPS) until the RAM can be dumped, then the machine os hard-killed (to avoid shutdown-triggered destruction triggers). After all that, the hard drive(s) is removed and connected to a device that is court-proven not to modify anything on the original disk and imaged to a drive that is then inserted into a controlled computer which performs the data retrieval. This is pretty much standard practice in data forensics.
It's been fairly clearly defined in the past that you are not in any way expected to aid the police during the execution of a warrant, providing keys, passwords, etc is not required be it for the front door, a safe, a computer, etc. You may OFFER to provide them (so they don't need to damage your front door), but you are undre NO obligation to do so.
Cool, so now it impossible to access the websites from any other computer. With OpenID you can set up sms, e-mail, password, browser certificate (same as browserID appears to do), or even having a special usb button next to your home server connected to a serial port to authenticate you.
I never said it WAS. I said it would be similar to something in between (taking a few, but not all, qualities of the two and combinign them into something new).
I know that, that was just to weed out the people that would complain that there was no way to know it was public domain.
When you mentioned "jaibreaking deaths that occured" sarcastically, I assumed you were talking about Android/iOS/winCE devices that already do just that.
I DID in fact read it. Most of the arguments showing that offering alternatives cost money (support training, images, testing, etc) become completely irrelevant when the machine is sold bare. The only relevant one is the confusion on the part of customers, but changing the wording from "Comes with linux, may not be compatible with other software" to "Does not include windows, operating system must be purchased or acquired separately" would bring those numbers to near zero. Customers already understand that tax software, word processing (other than the short trial), etc need to be purchased (or otherwise acquired) separately and "windows" would simply become another item on that list.
And how could you possibly live with yourself knowing one day you might be the one infected with the super flu virus, created in a lab due to the research you allowed, that kills everyone?
Pretty sure he wouldn't be doing much of anything actually.
No, but if someone got the work as public domain (with a public domain notice attached) and were never told that it had magically become NOT public domain, then sent someone else a copy (believing it to STILL be public domain), that is about half-way between entrapment and ex post facto. This gets even WORSE when businesses (big or small) USED these public domain works as part of their identity (logos, etc) or murchandise (t-shirts, pins, stickers, emblems). Imagine if snow white, pocahontas and cinderella suddenly became owned by some guy in Florida, Disney would be SCREWED if they continued selling those before finding out.
How the hell do they expect to inform every person that has a copy of the ex-public-domain works and tell them "By the way, your logo is now illegal because the clouds you used in the background are now copyrighted".