If you are hiding the dot files, what happens when a PC user moves a Mac generated file? Won't it loose the resource fork?
I'm not running any Linux file servers, but when a Mac access a Windows server over SMB, or even AFP, it will encode the resource fork into the file as an alternate datastream. It makes my Mac users' live a whole lot easier when their Adobe CS files are not broken.
Of course no one can finish it, the text is circular. The book's first sentence is the end of the start of the last sentence. It's an endless logic loop Joyce created to trap other authors, preventing them for writing their own novels, and to dominate the high stakes game of fine literature publishing.
I prefer patch cables with wings to shield the clip, like the Belkin patch cables. The standard boots stiffen with age, too. After 4 or 5 years in a patch panel they are just unmanageable. I cut the suckers off whenever I run across one that is giving me grief.
As with most things, the devil is in the details. With a TLS/SSL connection handshake, if you can break the RSA key exchange portion you can recover the symmetric encryption key that is used for the remainder of the connection. A man-in-the-middle attacker can easily record all packets in a connection without alerting either party. If they later break the RSA encryption, they can easily and efficiently decode the rest of the data stream.
Enter the DH (Diffie-Hellman) and ECDH (Elliptical Curve DH) key exchange protocols. Replacing the RSA key exchange, they offer "forward secrecy" that should prevent an attacker from recovering the symmetric key because they don't send the symmetric key across the wire. There are a couple of caveats. Firstly, Microsoft's DH implementation is weak a generally considered insecure. Secondly, the NSA was heavily involved in ECDH development and many believe there are back doors in the protocol. Even
"cuz a bad guy could replace a real touch sensor with a compromised one, then unlock the phone with a fake fingerprint."
No, he really couldn't. The touch id sensor is essentially a camera that takes a picture of your fingerprint. Apple has said that due to unique properties of each sensor if you change out a sensor you have to re-enroll your fingerprints. I don't know if that's because the sensor salts the image data, or if there is just minor variability between the sensors. But in any case, you can't just hack a sensor. If a bad guy is going to make a fake finger he will be better off leaving the original sensor in place.
That has not been my experience. Granted, Apple products are in the upper echelon when it comes to quality control. Fit and finish are superb and DOA's are non-existent. But when it comes to random failures, they are just as likely to go as any of the PC's I maintain. I have seen a fleet of Macbook Pros fail with the same logic board flaw, group of a dozen iMac hard drives fail within a year of each other, and about 20 eMacs (Yeah, I know I'm going back a bit for this one) all die from the capacitor plague of 2005. They apparently used the same component provider as Dell.
If a disk scanning utility detects an error it doesn't and prevent you from reading the resident data and force you to replaced the computer.
I'm cool with Apple taking action to alert owners that there is a problem. Disabling scanner functionality temporarily would be fine. Even disabling the phone until properly repaired would be defensible. The disabling the phone entirely and permanetly with no option for recovery or repair is the real dick move, and probably illegal. Dell doesn't destroy your computer anytime malware is detected. Ford doesn't repossess your car if you get the locks replaced. Class action suites are already starting to roll against Apple over this, and they will loose if it goes to court.
Who knows. Whether or not the hippocampus can atrophy from disuse is the better question. Without a controlled study it is impossible to say. But as they say, "practice makes perfect." Over-reliance on GPS will almost certainly make a person worse at spacial navigation.
Back in the dark ages, about circa 2010, researchers found evidence that GPS may erode navigational ability.
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans were taken of older adults who were GPS and non-GPS users. The subjects accustomed to navigating by spatial means were found to have higher activity and a greater volume of grey matter in the hippocampus than those used to relying on GPS."
It's not just web sites. I once called up my Apple sales rep and went on a 10 minute tirade about how they print the serial numbers on the bottom of Macbooks and iMacs. It's 1 mm high dark grey print on medium gray aluminum. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? We had a fleet of new Macbooks come in and two technicians who were tasked with inventorying them spent probably half an hour looking all over the damned things looking for the serial numbers before they came to me, and it took me another 10 or 15 minutes to find them. Every model previous to that had the serial numbers and MAC address brinted in sharp black lettering 1.5mm high on a white label. Yes, I did measure it. You know what support told me? They said, "you can just boot the computer to find the serial numbers," the smug bastards.
All of the studies I've seen estimate the total costs of accepting cash being between 30% and 104% of the cost of accepting credit.
This review of three studies between 2003 and 2010 is the best summary I've been able to find on the Internet Jump to page http://www.ei.com/downloadable...
In my estimation (not being an economist myself) is that yes there are costs to doing business in cash, but those are mostly fixed costs. If a store doubles their sales in cash, the fees and time spent handling the cash on the back office will increase, but not by much. Credit, on the other hand, is open ended. Costs rise nearly as fast as sales totals increase.
For small retailers who tend to rack up a large number of small transactions, A $10 credit charge will typically see 10 cents or so plus 2% of the charge amount in fees. That's 32 cents or 3.2% of the transaction fee in charges. (That is a generous example. Many credit agencies have harsher rates.) That is comparable to the cost of handling cash for these small transactions
With larger transaction sizes, cash looks even better to the retailer than credit, as the cost for accepting and handing a $40 transaction are not significantly greater than for a $10 transaction. There may be more trips to the bank or a marginally greater deposit fee, which are typically very small. But with a credit transaction, credit processing fees scales from 32 cents in my previous example to 90 cents, nearly tripling.
The best payment method for the retailer is debit card because it passes the transaction costs on to the customer. Debit cards also pass the risks of fraudulent transactions to the consumer, so most people should avoid them if they can.
This case has no chance. (IANAL, but I can google) The president can not be sued or prosecuted criminally for any act he does (or does not do) in the execution of his duties as president.
Executive immunity is an immunity granted to officers of the executive branch of government from personal liability for tortious acts or omissions done in the course of carrying out their duties. The U.S. president's executive immunity is absolute; however, the immunity of other federal executive officials is qualified.
It also doesn't capture the difficulty of the work. Some people gravitate towards tough or time consuming problems while others will tick off large quantities of easy tasks.
The trouble is that DNS does not prevent an attacker from faking a subdomain either by a man-in-the-middle or by DNS cache poisoning. You can't prevent your web browser from accessing any non-http url unless you are willing to completely disable http connections from your computer. Any time you visit any web site it can direct your web browser to access an arbitrary, forged, plain text URL. Then, if they have succeeded in executing a MITM against you or managed to poison the DNS caches on your computer, your router, or your ISP's DNS server, they can set a cookie and use it hijack browser sessions. HTTPS Everywhere should help, provided that all of your financial institutions are supported. DNSSEC would help as well because it requires DNS responses for protected zones to be digitally signed.
The big problem with most wireless USB implementations is that they use the wUSB standard. wUSB uses a relatively high frequency signal with very penetration capability. It is little better than a line-of-sight connection.
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If you are hiding the dot files, what happens when a PC user moves a Mac generated file? Won't it loose the resource fork?
I'm not running any Linux file servers, but when a Mac access a Windows server over SMB, or even AFP, it will encode the resource fork into the file as an alternate datastream. It makes my Mac users' live a whole lot easier when their Adobe CS files are not broken.
Of course no one can finish it, the text is circular. The book's first sentence is the end of the start of the last sentence. It's an endless logic loop Joyce created to trap other authors, preventing them for writing their own novels, and to dominate the high stakes game of fine literature publishing.
The labor is cheaper.... Just sayin'
I disagree. Locking mechanisms break, and it's easier to replace a patch cable than to re-solder a jack.
I prefer patch cables with wings to shield the clip, like the Belkin patch cables. The standard boots stiffen with age, too. After 4 or 5 years in a patch panel they are just unmanageable. I cut the suckers off whenever I run across one that is giving me grief.
I found some documentation and parts drawings here: http://www.te.com/usa-en/produ...
As with most things, the devil is in the details. With a TLS/SSL connection handshake, if you can break the RSA key exchange portion you can recover the symmetric encryption key that is used for the remainder of the connection. A man-in-the-middle attacker can easily record all packets in a connection without alerting either party. If they later break the RSA encryption, they can easily and efficiently decode the rest of the data stream.
Enter the DH (Diffie-Hellman) and ECDH (Elliptical Curve DH) key exchange protocols. Replacing the RSA key exchange, they offer "forward secrecy" that should prevent an attacker from recovering the symmetric key because they don't send the symmetric key across the wire. There are a couple of caveats. Firstly, Microsoft's DH implementation is weak a generally considered insecure. Secondly, the NSA was heavily involved in ECDH development and many believe there are back doors in the protocol. Even
"cuz a bad guy could replace a real touch sensor with a compromised one, then unlock the phone with a fake fingerprint."
No, he really couldn't. The touch id sensor is essentially a camera that takes a picture of your fingerprint. Apple has said that due to unique properties of each sensor if you change out a sensor you have to re-enroll your fingerprints. I don't know if that's because the sensor salts the image data, or if there is just minor variability between the sensors. But in any case, you can't just hack a sensor. If a bad guy is going to make a fake finger he will be better off leaving the original sensor in place.
The sensor doesn't return a positive or a negative. It just returns an image to the CPU for it to compare to the stored images.
That has not been my experience. Granted, Apple products are in the upper echelon when it comes to quality control. Fit and finish are superb and DOA's are non-existent. But when it comes to random failures, they are just as likely to go as any of the PC's I maintain. I have seen a fleet of Macbook Pros fail with the same logic board flaw, group of a dozen iMac hard drives fail within a year of each other, and about 20 eMacs (Yeah, I know I'm going back a bit for this one) all die from the capacitor plague of 2005. They apparently used the same component provider as Dell.
If a disk scanning utility detects an error it doesn't and prevent you from reading the resident data and force you to replaced the computer.
I'm cool with Apple taking action to alert owners that there is a problem. Disabling scanner functionality temporarily would be fine. Even disabling the phone until properly repaired would be defensible. The disabling the phone entirely and permanetly with no option for recovery or repair is the real dick move, and probably illegal. Dell doesn't destroy your computer anytime malware is detected. Ford doesn't repossess your car if you get the locks replaced. Class action suites are already starting to roll against Apple over this, and they will loose if it goes to court.
Who knows. Whether or not the hippocampus can atrophy from disuse is the better question. Without a controlled study it is impossible to say. But as they say, "practice makes perfect." Over-reliance on GPS will almost certainly make a person worse at spacial navigation.
Back in the dark ages, about circa 2010, researchers found evidence that GPS may erode navigational ability.
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans were taken of older adults who were GPS and non-GPS users. The subjects accustomed to navigating by spatial means were found to have higher activity and a greater volume of grey matter in the hippocampus than those used to relying on GPS."
http://phys.org/news/2010-11-r...
It's not just web sites. I once called up my Apple sales rep and went on a 10 minute tirade about how they print the serial numbers on the bottom of Macbooks and iMacs. It's 1 mm high dark grey print on medium gray aluminum. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? We had a fleet of new Macbooks come in and two technicians who were tasked with inventorying them spent probably half an hour looking all over the damned things looking for the serial numbers before they came to me, and it took me another 10 or 15 minutes to find them. Every model previous to that had the serial numbers and MAC address brinted in sharp black lettering 1.5mm high on a white label. Yes, I did measure it. You know what support told me? They said, "you can just boot the computer to find the serial numbers," the smug bastards.
All of the studies I've seen estimate the total costs of accepting cash being between 30% and 104% of the cost of accepting credit.
This review of three studies between 2003 and 2010 is the best summary I've been able to find on the Internet Jump to page
http://www.ei.com/downloadable...
In my estimation (not being an economist myself) is that yes there are costs to doing business in cash, but those are mostly fixed costs. If a store doubles their sales in cash, the fees and time spent handling the cash on the back office will increase, but not by much. Credit, on the other hand, is open ended. Costs rise nearly as fast as sales totals increase.
For small retailers who tend to rack up a large number of small transactions, A $10 credit charge will typically see 10 cents or so plus 2% of the charge amount in fees. That's 32 cents or 3.2% of the transaction fee in charges. (That is a generous example. Many credit agencies have harsher rates.) That is comparable to the cost of handling cash for these small transactions
With larger transaction sizes, cash looks even better to the retailer than credit, as the cost for accepting and handing a $40 transaction are not significantly greater than for a $10 transaction. There may be more trips to the bank or a marginally greater deposit fee, which are typically very small. But with a credit transaction, credit processing fees scales from 32 cents in my previous example to 90 cents, nearly tripling.
The best payment method for the retailer is debit card because it passes the transaction costs on to the customer. Debit cards also pass the risks of fraudulent transactions to the consumer, so most people should avoid them if they can.
This case has no chance. (IANAL, but I can google) The president can not be sued or prosecuted criminally for any act he does (or does not do) in the execution of his duties as president.
(from http://definitions.uslegal.com...)
Executive immunity is an immunity granted to officers of the executive branch of government from personal liability for tortious acts or omissions done in the course of carrying out their duties. The U.S. president's executive immunity is absolute; however, the immunity of other federal executive officials is qualified.
" “To do this quickly and efficiently,” she said, Cengage sought support from Cognizant."
I understand the words individually, but put all together they just don't make sense.
It also doesn't capture the difficulty of the work. Some people gravitate towards tough or time consuming problems while others will tick off large quantities of easy tasks.
The trouble is that DNS does not prevent an attacker from faking a subdomain either by a man-in-the-middle or by DNS cache poisoning. You can't prevent your web browser from accessing any non-http url unless you are willing to completely disable http connections from your computer. Any time you visit any web site it can direct your web browser to access an arbitrary, forged, plain text URL. Then, if they have succeeded in executing a MITM against you or managed to poison the DNS caches on your computer, your router, or your ISP's DNS server, they can set a cookie and use it hijack browser sessions. HTTPS Everywhere should help, provided that all of your financial institutions are supported. DNSSEC would help as well because it requires DNS responses for protected zones to be digitally signed.
Informal polling would tend to disagree with you.
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.androidcentral.com/...
http://www.androidcentral.com/...
http://forums.androidcentral.c...
http://www.neowin.net/forum/to...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
The curios part about this is that this privacy leakage flaw has been know since 2012 and was reported in the media. Facebook didn't care.
Aran Khanna MADE Facebook care. I don't know if he was trolling Facebook or if he is just naive. Either way, I applaud his results.
I somehow doubt that Wireshark feels slighted by his comment.
for the first alien to shoot one down with it's plasma shotgun. Will it be arrested for discharging a firearm inside a populated crater?
The big problem with most wireless USB implementations is that they use the wUSB standard. wUSB uses a relatively high frequency signal with very penetration capability. It is little better than a line-of-sight connection.
I would mod you up If I could. :)