The woman who raised you lovingly is your mama. That means, of course, that some people have housekeepers for mamas, but it also includes all grandmas who've taken over parenting, or adoptive mothers. Unfortunately, that also means that many people with genetic mothers don't have mamas.
If they come for your drive, then trust me, they will also be asking for your key.
Yes, if it's the government and you're doing something illegal, or they think you are.
But as a security measure against theft, i.e. laptops in airports, it works great. Someone who sneaks away with your computer for corporate espionage or even just to make a quick buck won't come ask you for your key. Just make sure you don't leave the key lying around!
Besides, whether you wear a white or black hat, you can destroy the keys once you know the disks are in hostile hands, as long as you take them with you. It's you, not a deadman switch, that makes that judgement, and in the meantime the data remains scrambled when you're not there. Wouldn't you hate for your box to suddenly erase all your stuff simply because you had to move it across the room or replace some hardware, and the deadman device thought you were a thief, instead?
Oh, and lastly, I was thinking of perhaps a mechanism to destroy disks upon having a system compromised. Many people might think "illegal data," (which could apply, I suppose), but I'm thinking more about big companies who have somehow had their data/drives ripped off... in which case it would be nice to nuke said drives before thieves can steal important/private customer/corporate data. Would also be useful if the RIAA comes-a-knockin'
Hardware-level encryption devices would give the same effect, I'm sure. You can carry around a little dongle with the key that is required for the system to read the drive properly. I don't mean a software-level driver with dongle, though you might need that for laptops. I mean a real device that sits between your IDE drive and the motherboard, that you plug the key into. Of course, this is better than destruction in case you get the drive back.
This was covered a few months ago in Slashdot, actually, but I can't find it in the first search I ran, and am too lazy to keep going.
If you find a Win2k CD in the trash, having been used by someone who purchased WinXP, you're fine to use it.
Only if the Win2K CD isn't an OEM version, and also only if the WinXP purchase was for a full version, not an upgrade.
Speaking of sucky licensing, I bought an OEM XP Pro version with hardware. I later upgraded my primary drive, copied the partition over, and rebooted. I got a notice stating that my key was no longer valid, and then that my key was not good for another installation. However, I did get an 800-number to call, where a contract customer service person who didn't know anything about computers interrogated me about what I did to my computer, and tried to tell me that my version was no longer good, even though all the hardware I bought with the license was still in the system. She eventually relented, however.
I wanted to just say look, I went and paid for this, when I probably could have gotten an enterprise, nonchecking version from a friend, or at least a key generator. I gave you guys the money anyway - why are you trying to screw me over? But I figured she'd probably just hang up and deactivate my key permanently, so I played nice. But I shouldn't have to tell some company every time I change a drive out, in order to keep running the software I paid for.
Dude, Norton Utilities would have found the partitions and restored them in about 3 minutes.
Dude, don't rely on any recovery software that writes changes back to the original drive. Always write the recovered files off to another drive, because... what happens if the low end cheap program doesn't find everything, and starts writing? It only mangles the data further and makes recovery harder. Yes, I know you can save an "undo" file somewhere if you use those programs, but really, the initial write still may destroy some data.
For some reason (insert evil plot here) XP can only format a FAT 32 Partition up to 32GB.
Yes, but you can also format FAT32X in XP by using Partition Magic. Then the limit is whatever PM currently maxes at (they are always a generation or two behind the highest-sized drives, unfortunately). Other partition managers probably also let you do this. as well.
what's needed is a system by which subscribers can mod down a story.
Subscribers should also get access to the junkpile of story submissions, and be able to vote them in. So many people have complained about their rejected stories later being accepted by someone else that it's obvious that the existing editors are inconsistent when selecting stories. This would alleviate the problem slightly, many stories popular enough to get several submissions will probably be popular enough on first submission for the subscribers to want to see them.
Of course, the heads of Slashdot could then look at the percentage of submissions each editor rejected that were appealed, and see how they're doing, so it probably won't happen.
If you are on a given track that has been zero and you don't detect that field, it was a 0. If you do detect something, it was a 1. This is simplifing it, but you get the idea.
Why not just "one" the data, instead of "zeroing" it? Is there enough differentiation between a "new" sidefield and one that came from the original data? And even if so, how can you tell if the new side field has overwritten an old, existing side field?
if you have *real* data recovery issues try Ontrack They can recover data from dead hard drives.
I can personally testify that their EZ-Recovery software is excellent, also, and beats Lost&Found and other competing types hands down, or at least it did when a very fragmented hard drive of mine was accidentally reformatted. You may think it's expensive, but when you really need that data, and it's not a physical drive defect that's to blame, it's a small price to pay. And that's from my experience with the individual version, not the big enterprise version. Their trial version is free, too, if you want to check before risking the money.
Suggestion: Get a bunch of friends together, go buy tickets to Underworld, and all walk out five minutes later in staggered groups to complain about the spots and demand a refund. That's about the only way to express your disapproval to the theater owner in a way that he can understand directly affects his bottom line.
I'm always losing pens, and I need something standard that's easily replaceable. I prefer the cheapest round-barrel plastic Bic-clone pens. They're "disposable," and cheap enough that they don't need refilling. I can get 14 pens for 89 cents at my local office supply store, and most of them even work for a while.
That's pretty close to pasteurization temperature. I don't know about you, but if I'm desperate enough to get my coffee from an assembly line that creates it in close proximity to beef, fish, poultry, and dairy products, and holds it in a pot that probably doesn't get clean very often (try their iced tea someday - it's often from the same pot, and tastes like it), I want it as close to sterile as possible.
If you really want to complain about fast food drinks, check out the condition of the soda fountain spout covers. I didn't even know they existed until one very dirty one fell in my drink at an AMC theater. Yuck!
May I suggest Brother, Canon, HP, Xerox, the list goes on and on.
Cheap inkjet printers that are nice do exist, just make sure you keep a few things in mind:
- If you can hold out until mid to late November, you'll see all kinds of holiday and discontinued model sales, through the end of the year. - Assuming you get a color inkjet, you probably will want to look for a model with multiple ink cartridges, so you don't have to waste other colors when one color goes. - Also, when you get it, make sure that in whatever operating system you use (be very careful you're not buying a "winprinter" if you need it for *NIX, unless you can get an emulation package) you set the driver to print in greyscale by default - most drivers set to color by default, and "black" is not black, but is a blend of the other inks...
When I bought my HP, it was for $50 from CompUSA, down from $99 - and that was in 1999. Later, I bought a Canon at a lesser discount from Fry's, in 2001, because it uses cartidges that are more expensive to replace all at once, but less expensive overall because I only refill the empty colors. I gave my sister the HP, which is still very nice (and in fact I miss the dedicated envelope slot). HP is so popular that the third party manufacturer prices are probably half the HP price. Canon alternatives, on the other hand, are around two thirds. I have to say, at $10 or $12 total per cartridge, the premium for Canon's name and warranty seems worth it.
And don't forget, no matter what brand of printer you eventually get, some office supply stores will give you free reams of paper or a small store credit for each empty cartridge you return, because most of these cartridges are specifically designed to be recycled and reused, to the point where the stores bank on making a profit returning these. PLEASE do this, not just for the free paper, but because of the environmental impact... which is another reason not to use Lexmark!
Your friend could have gotten the telemarketer fired. Also, if he called from home, your friend could have started calling him daily, "just to see how the job is going."
I was called once by a roofing service. When I said go away, they hung up... but their system didn't totally disconnect. I heard some other dialing and voices in the background, so after a minute I said hello. A different guy answered, called me by someone else's name, and started the same pitch. I was sooooo tempted to say "yes, please come give the free inspection, come in through the back, ok?"
Also, everyone please consider calling the number in my sigfile and leaving a generic complaint. An update on the situation: MBNA called me multiple times asking me if I wanted to change my card from an Audobon Society Platinum Visa (where the Society makes a tiny amount of profit) to some generic MBNA Platinum Mastercard. I told them no multiple times, and they finally stopped calling, but two days later I got a letter congratulating me on being "approved" for an "upgrade" from the Visa to the Mastercard. I guess they just decided they'd slam my account over so they could stop paying out to the Audobon Society.
Moral of the story: MBNA engages in devious practices, including slamming and using telemarketers who don't respect wishes of existing customers, and should be avoided.
I guess the idea is that if you are footing the bill you should be allowed to block your number, and if you are paying for the toll-free line you should be able to see who is calling you - which makes sense.
No, the reason why is because people with 800 numbers usually also make use of ANI, or Automatic Number Identification. This takes place at a lower level than CID and so cannot be blocked.
How many folks that are paranoid about rfid tags currently own and use a cell phone? Or have a discount card from their grocery store?
When I asked for my Safeway card, I was handed an application with a working card stuck to it, and told to bring the application back later.
Guess what? No activation was required, I forgot to turn in the form, and 2 years later the receipt still lists me as a "new card" and the last 4 of my number. And the accounting still works for the buy a few, get one free deals and other specials that are tied to the specifc account number. In fact, last year I got a 20% off discount for two weeks.
I don't care what they know about my habits, as long as they don't know it's me. They can print up targeted coupons all they want - why would I turn down more savings if they guess right about what I'm in the market for?
Of course, if they really wanted to, they could correlate my Safeway card with my credit or debit cards, as I've used each of those at times to pay for things. I hope they don't do that, then tell my insurance company I live on overpriced junk food.
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What would happen if ammunition was somehow RFID-tagged, in a way that survived firing? It would be a lot easier to tell who originally bought the ammunition for homicides, even if they didn't do any killing.
Of course, right now the government has a guilty-til-proven-innocent attitude towards speeders they catch with unattended photo-radar traps. Will they take a similar stance if they know the owner of materials used in a crime?
I'd have probably responded, "if it's unenforceable, then it's worthless, so you won't mind if I don't sign."
So then they may backpedal, and then I might ask, "so... the part about it not being enforceable, was it the truth?"
At that point, of course, I'd already be looking for the exit, or ask to speak to the head of HR to confirm facts. It's quite possible that only one HR flunky is lying, but if it's the company line, you really don't want to work for them anyway, because what's to stop them from lying to you after you start work?
Don't forget, Verio is a Tier-1 provider that was bought by NTT a couple of years ago. No, they don't actually own any fiber, but most of these questions and concerns were exactly the same, especially considering how large Verio's hosting business was at the time.
...by everyone who can be located, who has contributed to GNU/Linux kernels. As SCO claims that the GPL is bogus, they obviously do not intend to follow it, and, in fact (as this open letter points out) have violated it.
I'm sure the LKP code would look really nice made public as part of the discovery process, if there truly is GPL code stolen by SCO in it.:)
AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND. By using the service(s) provided by VeriSign under these Terms of Use, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions here in and documents incorporated by reference.
So... we're forced to a server, then told that by going to it, we agree with their rules?
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The woman who raised you lovingly is your mama. That means, of course, that some people have housekeepers for mamas, but it also includes all grandmas who've taken over parenting, or adoptive mothers. Unfortunately, that also means that many people with genetic mothers don't have mamas.
Problem is, I can't get it to load in my Mozilla, only in IE.
Someone want to look into this?
Yes, if it's the government and you're doing something illegal, or they think you are.
But as a security measure against theft, i.e. laptops in airports, it works great. Someone who sneaks away with your computer for corporate espionage or even just to make a quick buck won't come ask you for your key. Just make sure you don't leave the key lying around!
Besides, whether you wear a white or black hat, you can destroy the keys once you know the disks are in hostile hands, as long as you take them with you. It's you, not a deadman switch, that makes that judgement, and in the meantime the data remains scrambled when you're not there. Wouldn't you hate for your box to suddenly erase all your stuff simply because you had to move it across the room or replace some hardware, and the deadman device thought you were a thief, instead?
Hardware-level encryption devices would give the same effect, I'm sure. You can carry around a little dongle with the key that is required for the system to read the drive properly. I don't mean a software-level driver with dongle, though you might need that for laptops. I mean a real device that sits between your IDE drive and the motherboard, that you plug the key into. Of course, this is better than destruction in case you get the drive back.
This was covered a few months ago in Slashdot, actually, but I can't find it in the first search I ran, and am too lazy to keep going.
Only if the Win2K CD isn't an OEM version, and also only if the WinXP purchase was for a full version, not an upgrade.
Speaking of sucky licensing, I bought an OEM XP Pro version with hardware. I later upgraded my primary drive, copied the partition over, and rebooted. I got a notice stating that my key was no longer valid, and then that my key was not good for another installation. However, I did get an 800-number to call, where a contract customer service person who didn't know anything about computers interrogated me about what I did to my computer, and tried to tell me that my version was no longer good, even though all the hardware I bought with the license was still in the system. She eventually relented, however.
I wanted to just say look, I went and paid for this, when I probably could have gotten an enterprise, nonchecking version from a friend, or at least a key generator. I gave you guys the money anyway - why are you trying to screw me over? But I figured she'd probably just hang up and deactivate my key permanently, so I played nice. But I shouldn't have to tell some company every time I change a drive out, in order to keep running the software I paid for.
Dude, don't rely on any recovery software that writes changes back to the original drive. Always write the recovered files off to another drive, because... what happens if the low end cheap program doesn't find everything, and starts writing? It only mangles the data further and makes recovery harder. Yes, I know you can save an "undo" file somewhere if you use those programs, but really, the initial write still may destroy some data.
And what happens when your backup system is suddenly discovered to have been corrupted, perhaps intentionally, perhaps weeks prior to the loss?
Yes, but you can also format FAT32X in XP by using Partition Magic. Then the limit is whatever PM currently maxes at (they are always a generation or two behind the highest-sized drives, unfortunately). Other partition managers probably also let you do this. as well.
Subscribers should also get access to the junkpile of story submissions, and be able to vote them in. So many people have complained about their rejected stories later being accepted by someone else that it's obvious that the existing editors are inconsistent when selecting stories. This would alleviate the problem slightly, many stories popular enough to get several submissions will probably be popular enough on first submission for the subscribers to want to see them.
Of course, the heads of Slashdot could then look at the percentage of submissions each editor rejected that were appealed, and see how they're doing, so it probably won't happen.
Why not just "one" the data, instead of "zeroing" it? Is there enough differentiation between a "new" sidefield and one that came from the original data? And even if so, how can you tell if the new side field has overwritten an old, existing side field?
I can personally testify that their EZ-Recovery software is excellent, also, and beats Lost&Found and other competing types hands down, or at least it did when a very fragmented hard drive of mine was accidentally reformatted. You may think it's expensive, but when you really need that data, and it's not a physical drive defect that's to blame, it's a small price to pay. And that's from my experience with the individual version, not the big enterprise version. Their trial version is free, too, if you want to check before risking the money.
Suggestion: Get a bunch of friends together, go buy tickets to Underworld, and all walk out five minutes later in staggered groups to complain about the spots and demand a refund. That's about the only way to express your disapproval to the theater owner in a way that he can understand directly affects his bottom line.
I'm always losing pens, and I need something standard that's easily replaceable. I prefer the cheapest round-barrel plastic Bic-clone pens. They're "disposable," and cheap enough that they don't need refilling. I can get 14 pens for 89 cents at my local office supply store, and most of them even work for a while.
That's pretty close to pasteurization temperature. I don't know about you, but if I'm desperate enough to get my coffee from an assembly line that creates it in close proximity to beef, fish, poultry, and dairy products, and holds it in a pot that probably doesn't get clean very often (try their iced tea someday - it's often from the same pot, and tastes like it), I want it as close to sterile as possible.
If you really want to complain about fast food drinks, check out the condition of the soda fountain spout covers. I didn't even know they existed until one very dirty one fell in my drink at an AMC theater. Yuck!
Cheap inkjet printers that are nice do exist, just make sure you keep a few things in mind:
- If you can hold out until mid to late November, you'll see all kinds of holiday and discontinued model sales, through the end of the year.
- Assuming you get a color inkjet, you probably will want to look for a model with multiple ink cartridges, so you don't have to waste other colors when one color goes.
- Also, when you get it, make sure that in whatever operating system you use (be very careful you're not buying a "winprinter" if you need it for *NIX, unless you can get an emulation package) you set the driver to print in greyscale by default - most drivers set to color by default, and "black" is not black, but is a blend of the other inks...
When I bought my HP, it was for $50 from CompUSA, down from $99 - and that was in 1999. Later, I bought a Canon at a lesser discount from Fry's, in 2001, because it uses cartidges that are more expensive to replace all at once, but less expensive overall because I only refill the empty colors. I gave my sister the HP, which is still very nice (and in fact I miss the dedicated envelope slot). HP is so popular that the third party manufacturer prices are probably half the HP price. Canon alternatives, on the other hand, are around two thirds. I have to say, at $10 or $12 total per cartridge, the premium for Canon's name and warranty seems worth it.
And don't forget, no matter what brand of printer you eventually get, some office supply stores will give you free reams of paper or a small store credit for each empty cartridge you return, because most of these cartridges are specifically designed to be recycled and reused, to the point where the stores bank on making a profit returning these. PLEASE do this, not just for the free paper, but because of the environmental impact... which is another reason not to use Lexmark!
Your friend could have gotten the telemarketer fired. Also, if he called from home, your friend could have started calling him daily, "just to see how the job is going."
I was called once by a roofing service. When I said go away, they hung up... but their system didn't totally disconnect. I heard some other dialing and voices in the background, so after a minute I said hello. A different guy answered, called me by someone else's name, and started the same pitch. I was sooooo tempted to say "yes, please come give the free inspection, come in through the back, ok?"
Also, everyone please consider calling the number in my sigfile and leaving a generic complaint. An update on the situation: MBNA called me multiple times asking me if I wanted to change my card from an Audobon Society Platinum Visa (where the Society makes a tiny amount of profit) to some generic MBNA Platinum Mastercard. I told them no multiple times, and they finally stopped calling, but two days later I got a letter congratulating me on being "approved" for an "upgrade" from the Visa to the Mastercard. I guess they just decided they'd slam my account over so they could stop paying out to the Audobon Society.
Moral of the story: MBNA engages in devious practices, including slamming and using telemarketers who don't respect wishes of existing customers, and should be avoided.
No, the reason why is because people with 800 numbers usually also make use of ANI, or Automatic Number Identification. This takes place at a lower level than CID and so cannot be blocked.
When I asked for my Safeway card, I was handed an application with a working card stuck to it, and told to bring the application back later.
Guess what? No activation was required, I forgot to turn in the form, and 2 years later the receipt still lists me as a "new card" and the last 4 of my number. And the accounting still works for the buy a few, get one free deals and other specials that are tied to the specifc account number. In fact, last year I got a 20% off discount for two weeks.
I don't care what they know about my habits, as long as they don't know it's me. They can print up targeted coupons all they want - why would I turn down more savings if they guess right about what I'm in the market for?
Of course, if they really wanted to, they could correlate my Safeway card with my credit or debit cards, as I've used each of those at times to pay for things. I hope they don't do that, then tell my insurance company I live on overpriced junk food.
What would happen if ammunition was somehow RFID-tagged, in a way that survived firing?
It would be a lot easier to tell who originally bought the ammunition for homicides, even if they didn't do any killing.
Of course, right now the government has a guilty-til-proven-innocent attitude towards speeders they catch with unattended photo-radar traps. Will they take a similar stance if they know the owner of materials used in a crime?
I'd have probably responded, "if it's unenforceable, then it's worthless, so you won't mind if I don't sign."
So then they may backpedal, and then I might ask, "so... the part about it not being enforceable, was it the truth?"
At that point, of course, I'd already be looking for the exit, or ask to speak to the head of HR to confirm facts. It's quite possible that only one HR flunky is lying, but if it's the company line, you really don't want to work for them anyway, because what's to stop them from lying to you after you start work?
Yup. Damned if I do, damned if I don't, I guess.
Well, normally editors would catch something like that. But this is Slashdot
Don't forget, Verio is a Tier-1 provider that was bought by NTT a couple of years ago. No, they don't actually own any fiber, but most of these questions and concerns were exactly the same, especially considering how large Verio's hosting business was at the time.
...by everyone who can be located, who has contributed to GNU/Linux kernels. As SCO claims that the GPL is bogus, they obviously do not intend to follow it, and, in fact (as this open letter points out) have violated it.
:)
I'm sure the LKP code would look really nice made public as part of the discovery process, if there truly is GPL code stolen by SCO in it.
So... we're forced to a server, then told that by going to it, we agree with their rules?