*Plugs in USB drive. *USB drive starts doing evil things *Computer: "This device is not an authorised USB drive" *Unplugs USB drive and throws it into the bin.
The attack vector relies on either inside knowledge and privilege or time to collect privileged information. The former is mitigated by policy, the latter by human nature.
I'm going to go on a limb here and say that the USB key won't let you copy files to and from it. If you're talking about the can't trust foreign hardware aspect of USB here the key requirement for it is that continues to act as the user expects in order to avoid suspicion. Sure it can be a keyboard in the background logging your strokes, but if it doesn't function as a USB drive as well the user will relegate it to the scrapheap.
Probably none. When you hear notices like this come out of Fortune 500 companies the news only gets trickle fed headline. In the backend there will be alternatives in place, or procedures for actual use of USB if no alternatives can be found.
My company says it does the same thing too. None the less I have an authorised encrypted USB key to keep going about my work, and most of those other people who desperately needed USB? Well they discovered a world of networking that enabled them to increased their productivity rather than decrease it.
These attitudes are emerging in China because the demand for workers is high enough that workers have leverage, not because they have degrees.
Not quite. The thing is you can't compare all countries directly, especially due to the incredible cultural differences between them. Making demands of your employers just because you have buying power? Not in your parents China! That would be considered disrespectful. It would be frowned upon. What kind of a man would not actually *want* to work 12h/6d to provide for their family. Are you not a good family man? Shame on you.
Education is required to get over that mindset, and not just personal education. You need to educate a generation. Enlightening ones self brings alienation. Enlightening a generation brings about cultural changes.
Hahahahah why don't we meet up at 2pm tomorrow at the cafe outside Berlin train station where we can sit down and you can ponder suing me for breaking this contract when I don't show up.
The funny thing about lawyers is there's always 2 in the room, and one of them always loses, and in this case it's the one that thinks that there is any kind of legal liability introduced when making an appointment.
Also you don't need to be a JD to have understood contract law. A few years of university is enough.
I'm saying this as a moderate (at best drinker) -- the.08 limit is pathetically, laughably low in terms of being an ACTUAL fucking public safety issue.
Nope, You're saying this as someone who either is an excellent functioning alcoholic, or as someone who is dangerously unaware of their own dysfunction. I'm betting it's the latter. There are a myriad of people out there who barely cope with the 0.05 limit that most countries have in place. There is a myriad of research that no consumption of alcohol what so ever comes without some form of measurable impairment. And there's daily statistics to show that even without impairment humans are causing enough problems behind the wheel. There's a reason why anyone driving in professional situations has this limit further reduced in many countries to 0.02.
BUT if someone blows a.09, should they have their professional and financial life ruined?
No. I agree no one's life should be ruined. But that has zero to do with BAC rules and everything to do with America's prison industrial complex that makes everyone in the country a horrid criminal. Fine people, prevent people from moving on, remove points from their license, but major events should be reserved for those who flout the law continuously, and I say major events because being disqualified from driving is major, but having a criminal conviction is life ruining and there's petty few people who deserve that from drinking alcohol without consequence (by that I mean they don't cause a huge accident or kill someone).
The only thing that will probably be custom and contractors flown in is for the low-volt and fiber networks. Everything else will have to be built to local building codes and inspected by the local authority, whom the local contractors have working relationships with.
Yes I'm sure the local economy (made up of approximately 4000 people in total) will be used for all that. It certainly won't be some construction firm bringing in labour from afar to do that construction, because only that town of 4000 people know how to build a datacentre according to code.
One of my friends worked for a company which calibrated the units for the local police. He brought some home and we pulled it out at a party. Naturally this turned into a competition with a few people blowing 0.15 and up.
Well these things have an audit trail in them which raised some eyebrows when the police printed it off when it was returned.
Especially considering things like mouth wash, or ketones can result in a false positive. As an added bonus, that extra time waiting for the blood draw means your BAC is decreasing.
That's a lovely trap for idiots. In my state if you get pulled over at the booze bus, and request a blood test it'll be done in about a minute. If you blow over the limit you get to sit down for 10-15min before re-blowing precisely to gauge if you're blowing a temporary false positive.
And if you're relying on something to get you BAC down to pass the cops then behalf of the rest of the road users, fuck you you drink driving fuck.
and the average gross cost of solar panels before tax credits is $18,840
I priced it up before posting using a fake LA post code. Guess what, you're not running a power plant on your roof, and you can get a well oversized system for a good $5k less than that, a reasonable sized system for close to half of that and then credit bring you down even further. WTF you doing with a 6kW system in LA of all places? That would be more suitable in Seattle.
Companies can't even get phone trees right as it is
By equating Google's efforts to a phone tree you have completely misunderstood the nature of the technology and just exposed your automatic prejudice against it.
Oh, wait a second, no, they will increase their pricing locally, because you have to use their service.
LA is one of the most competitive places for solar installation in the country. It is also the cheapest due to that. Solar panel installation is not a monopoly, or a duopoly, or even an oligopoly. It's quite the definition of a competitive market.
$10K, really? I've heard ~$30k - which is a lot more in-line with reality. Expect a good 2 decades to pay back the initial cost.
When did you hear that? 2001? A solar power setup can be had for a tad over $10k BEFORE rebates, after which you're closer to $6k and it'll pay back in a couple of years even with the USA based fantasy electrical pricing.
My solar panels in Australia paid back in under 2 years, and they've come down a lot in price since I bought them.
actually, it depends on how they are produced. When you get solar from China, you are getting about 3/4 of the energy into it coming from coal. Pretty dirty.
The exact number does, the outcome does not. You can take a shitty coal fired station from the 50s, plug it into a solar power manufacturing plant and still well and truly get an environmental benefit over the life of the panel.
Let me stop you there, because that has been disproven for every form of commercialised environmental initiatives be they energy saving, energy generating, or clearing existing emissions.
Having witnessed a colleague fall unconscious due to N2 near an analyser hut I would agree it's a dangerous gas. That said your scenario could have been managed in 4 minutes, rather than 4 weeks:-).
The danger of Nitrogen is far more evident in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and any other country where the primary language is West Germanic (except for English). Directly translated "Nitrogen" becomes "asphyxiation substance"
Said it was the #1 choice of his when it was time to go.
I've actually seen it. The airline pilot has it even worse as he is deprived partially but not wholly of it. With pure N2 you have about 2-3 breaths and you're done. You don't even notice how quickly you go under because you think you're getting air all the while there's nothing in your lungs to help Oxygenate your blood. Ever hear of patients passing out during respirometries? They literally can't last 10 seconds with depleted lungs, and in those scenarios even attempting to fully breath out your lungs still actually have some air in them.
I went with a technician to fix an NIR analyser one day. We opened the door to the analyser hut. He stepped forward, not even in the hut, still in the doorway, and collapsed. He hit the ground before his gas detector was able to alert him of lack of oxygen it was that quick. I grabbed him by the foot and dragged him away. Guy survived by had horrible scratches on his face, not that he was complaining about the rescue method. Gave me a very big respect for confined spaces with gas bottles in them. Stupid thing was this hut had two doors. The other door had a flashing light above it indicating low O2 in the hut. Whoever fitted these huts only bought one beacon for each assuming they all only had one door.
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The OS will happily accept input from the thing
Yes but the user won't.
*Plugs in USB drive.
*USB drive starts doing evil things
*Computer: "This device is not an authorised USB drive"
*Unplugs USB drive and throws it into the bin.
The attack vector relies on either inside knowledge and privilege or time to collect privileged information. The former is mitigated by policy, the latter by human nature.
I'm going to go on a limb here and say that the USB key won't let you copy files to and from it. If you're talking about the can't trust foreign hardware aspect of USB here the key requirement for it is that continues to act as the user expects in order to avoid suspicion. Sure it can be a keyboard in the background logging your strokes, but if it doesn't function as a USB drive as well the user will relegate it to the scrapheap.
But how much productivity is lost
Probably none. When you hear notices like this come out of Fortune 500 companies the news only gets trickle fed headline. In the backend there will be alternatives in place, or procedures for actual use of USB if no alternatives can be found.
My company says it does the same thing too. None the less I have an authorised encrypted USB key to keep going about my work, and most of those other people who desperately needed USB? Well they discovered a world of networking that enabled them to increased their productivity rather than decrease it.
These attitudes are emerging in China because the demand for workers is high enough that workers have leverage, not because they have degrees.
Not quite. The thing is you can't compare all countries directly, especially due to the incredible cultural differences between them. Making demands of your employers just because you have buying power? Not in your parents China! That would be considered disrespectful. It would be frowned upon. What kind of a man would not actually *want* to work 12h/6d to provide for their family. Are you not a good family man? Shame on you.
Education is required to get over that mindset, and not just personal education. You need to educate a generation. Enlightening ones self brings alienation. Enlightening a generation brings about cultural changes.
Seriously - wtf is there to do for 12 hours per day 6 days a week?
QA / QA on Microsoft products.
Hahahahah why don't we meet up at 2pm tomorrow at the cafe outside Berlin train station where we can sit down and you can ponder suing me for breaking this contract when I don't show up.
The funny thing about lawyers is there's always 2 in the room, and one of them always loses, and in this case it's the one that thinks that there is any kind of legal liability introduced when making an appointment.
Also you don't need to be a JD to have understood contract law. A few years of university is enough.
I'm saying this as a moderate (at best drinker) -- the .08 limit is pathetically, laughably low in terms of being an ACTUAL fucking public safety issue.
Nope, You're saying this as someone who either is an excellent functioning alcoholic, or as someone who is dangerously unaware of their own dysfunction. I'm betting it's the latter. There are a myriad of people out there who barely cope with the 0.05 limit that most countries have in place. There is a myriad of research that no consumption of alcohol what so ever comes without some form of measurable impairment. And there's daily statistics to show that even without impairment humans are causing enough problems behind the wheel. There's a reason why anyone driving in professional situations has this limit further reduced in many countries to 0.02.
BUT if someone blows a .09, should they have their professional and financial life ruined?
No. I agree no one's life should be ruined. But that has zero to do with BAC rules and everything to do with America's prison industrial complex that makes everyone in the country a horrid criminal. Fine people, prevent people from moving on, remove points from their license, but major events should be reserved for those who flout the law continuously, and I say major events because being disqualified from driving is major, but having a criminal conviction is life ruining and there's petty few people who deserve that from drinking alcohol without consequence (by that I mean they don't cause a huge accident or kill someone).
I have a good idea. You should consider reading Slashdot sometime:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
The only thing that will probably be custom and contractors flown in is for the low-volt and fiber networks. Everything else will have to be built to local building codes and inspected by the local authority, whom the local contractors have working relationships with.
Yes I'm sure the local economy (made up of approximately 4000 people in total) will be used for all that. It certainly won't be some construction firm bringing in labour from afar to do that construction, because only that town of 4000 people know how to build a datacentre according to code.
One of my friends worked for a company which calibrated the units for the local police. He brought some home and we pulled it out at a party. Naturally this turned into a competition with a few people blowing 0.15 and up.
Well these things have an audit trail in them which raised some eyebrows when the police printed it off when it was returned.
The neurological deficits of drinking (and using many other drugs) persist long after blood levels have dropped to zero.
Citation please.
Especially considering things like mouth wash, or ketones can result in a false positive. As an added bonus, that extra time waiting for the blood draw means your BAC is decreasing.
That's a lovely trap for idiots. In my state if you get pulled over at the booze bus, and request a blood test it'll be done in about a minute. If you blow over the limit you get to sit down for 10-15min before re-blowing precisely to gauge if you're blowing a temporary false positive.
And if you're relying on something to get you BAC down to pass the cops then behalf of the rest of the road users, fuck you you drink driving fuck.
That's not true. Your secretary ordering goods is acting as your agent, with authority to bind you as principal.
And the entire process is still not legally binding even if you do it yourself. Learn some contract law.
and the average gross cost of solar panels before tax credits is $18,840
I priced it up before posting using a fake LA post code. Guess what, you're not running a power plant on your roof, and you can get a well oversized system for a good $5k less than that, a reasonable sized system for close to half of that and then credit bring you down even further. WTF you doing with a 6kW system in LA of all places? That would be more suitable in Seattle.
Companies can't even get phone trees right as it is
By equating Google's efforts to a phone tree you have completely misunderstood the nature of the technology and just exposed your automatic prejudice against it.
What makes you think a machine can enter a legally binding contract?
Fuck me that escalated quickly. Guess what: 99% of the things you do over the phone are not legally binding in any form.
They should use AI technology to determine if the user wants the audio to start automatically or not. Can't AI do that?
The did. They fed the users into the AI and the AI answered "no". So that's what they are programming into Chrome.
Oh, wait a second, no, they will increase their pricing locally, because you have to use their service.
LA is one of the most competitive places for solar installation in the country. It is also the cheapest due to that. Solar panel installation is not a monopoly, or a duopoly, or even an oligopoly. It's quite the definition of a competitive market.
$10K, really? I've heard ~$30k - which is a lot more in-line with reality. Expect a good 2 decades to pay back the initial cost.
When did you hear that? 2001? A solar power setup can be had for a tad over $10k BEFORE rebates, after which you're closer to $6k and it'll pay back in a couple of years even with the USA based fantasy electrical pricing.
My solar panels in Australia paid back in under 2 years, and they've come down a lot in price since I bought them.
actually, it depends on how they are produced. When you get solar from China, you are getting about 3/4 of the energy into it coming from coal. Pretty dirty.
The exact number does, the outcome does not. You can take a shitty coal fired station from the 50s, plug it into a solar power manufacturing plant and still well and truly get an environmental benefit over the life of the panel.
The environmental cost of
Let me stop you there, because that has been disproven for every form of commercialised environmental initiatives be they energy saving, energy generating, or clearing existing emissions.
I would rather die instantly than be stuck in prison for the rest of my life.
I think that's kind of the point. Ever heard of the phrase "Death is too good for him"?
Having witnessed a colleague fall unconscious due to N2 near an analyser hut I would agree it's a dangerous gas. That said your scenario could have been managed in 4 minutes, rather than 4 weeks :-).
The danger of Nitrogen is far more evident in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and any other country where the primary language is West Germanic (except for English). Directly translated "Nitrogen" becomes "asphyxiation substance"
The only legit moral issue with the death penalty is that it's imperative to be completely sure you have a guilty man
That says far more about your morals than it does about the death penalty.
Said it was the #1 choice of his when it was time to go.
I've actually seen it. The airline pilot has it even worse as he is deprived partially but not wholly of it. With pure N2 you have about 2-3 breaths and you're done. You don't even notice how quickly you go under because you think you're getting air all the while there's nothing in your lungs to help Oxygenate your blood. Ever hear of patients passing out during respirometries? They literally can't last 10 seconds with depleted lungs, and in those scenarios even attempting to fully breath out your lungs still actually have some air in them.
I went with a technician to fix an NIR analyser one day. We opened the door to the analyser hut. He stepped forward, not even in the hut, still in the doorway, and collapsed. He hit the ground before his gas detector was able to alert him of lack of oxygen it was that quick. I grabbed him by the foot and dragged him away. Guy survived by had horrible scratches on his face, not that he was complaining about the rescue method. Gave me a very big respect for confined spaces with gas bottles in them. Stupid thing was this hut had two doors. The other door had a flashing light above it indicating low O2 in the hut. Whoever fitted these huts only bought one beacon for each assuming they all only had one door.