Yeah....I'm a skinny bastard. 5'10", 138 lbs @ 34 years old.
I eat like a horse...whatever I want, whenever I want it. Don't think about calories at all.
Since leaving high school I've gained a total of maybe 15 lbs. And not for lack of trying....
People say I'm really lucky that I don't have to watch what I eat. But between the grocery bill, and being hungry most of the time, I'm not sure it's that beneficial.:)
1. You can turn the feature off in the browser. (At least, I'd hope so.) 2. The browser doesn't have the ability to pass laws that make you a criminal. 3. You don't pay taxes to your browser, only to have it track you in return. 4. ???? 5. You get the picture.
Yes, but IRM and DRM are two completely different things.
IRM allows a company to control who gets to see their own documents.
DRM allows a company to control what consumers have to repurchase.
The difference being, that the company using IRM is in control of their own use of their own internal documents, while the company using DRM is attempting to control the entire public's use of files that are meant to be used by the public.
Having said that, IRM can still be a pain for whistleblowers attempting to alert the public to something illegal their company is doing.
voila, a workable student ID that can be generated from the user's data on the secure systems, but finding any secret info from the student ID number is virtually impossible, other than the date they started with the university.
Until some dumbass admin who thinks "I know what I'm doing. It'll be fine." starts downloading trojanned cracks from infected-keygens.biz on the secure server....
I really didn't even have time to write a script to do it, I had to login to the server, and use Pine to turn everyone's mail into just another folder that I could access and I manually went in and had to find and delete the mail from like 300 people's inboxes.
Obviously, to this day, I'm nearly certain that a not insignificant fraction of the staff had actually downloaded it from the POP3 server before I could get to it, but I was too frenzied to actually get a count as I was tabbing around and deleting like a mad man.
Why wasn't your first thought to turn off the POP3 server and any webmail or other access people might have had? Sure, it's a pain, and you'll get helpdesk calls asking "Why can't I get email?" Just say, "There's a problem with the server, we're working on it." If you have an internal technical website (and you should, which should also be policy that it's the first place for people to check when they have a problem with something other than their own computer not turning on), post a quick message on it stating that there's a problem with the email system - and you're not lying - and it will be resolved as soon as possible.
Then, take an hour or so to write your script, don't answer the phone, start it running, and go to lunch. When you get back, check a random sampling of mailboxes to make sure it's gone, fire up POP3 again, and send a message to the HR moron, stating that it was determined that the attachment they sent was flagged by your security filters as being a potential breach, which is what shut down the email system, and not to ever do anything that stupid again.
You're not supposed to moderate so much on the topic, as the amount of information and presentation of said info. If they bring forward a point you don't agree with, but fully support it with evidence, logical arguments, etc, then you mod it up, or at least, don't mod it down.
If they just say "Lunix/Winblows/CrackOS sucks cuz my homie knows a guy who's friend got a virus on it!" well...then you troll mod into oblivion.
Comments of "I agree" don't add anything useful to the conversation, and only serve to fill up the database tables of/. servers, so these sometimes get downmodded.
Comments that state a point and try to back it up with random web links that don't even support their view, posted in the hope of readers thinking "He's got references. Must be right." without even reading said links, should also be modded down.
You're right, though, it can be difficult to properly mod, due to your own preconceptions interfering. But you've kind of got to put yourself outside the discussion, and see it from that point of view. That's very likely why you can't comment and mod the same story. If you get involved in the conversation, the preconceptions become even more solid and difficult to put aside when moderating. That, and people (read: jerks) will mod down anybody who responds to their postings and disagrees with them....
Of course, if somebody puts forth a radically stupid idea, no matter how well supported with anecdotal evidence (I read about a guy who got trapped in a sinking car because he couldn't get his seatbelt undone, so nobody should have to wear seatbelts because they obviously kill people!) then you still have a right to mod down. Although there should be a "-1 Moron" mod for that....
I'd think anything that specialized would be so low volume as to be as expensive as a PC, even though it's much simpler.
My suggestion: Next time you or a friend upgrades their computer, or you find one on the side of the road (maybe with data on it..), or whatever, grab it. Pull all the nonessential parts - HD, vid card if it's got onboard or you have a low power junker sitting around - so it uses less power. Cut a hole in the side of the case, and run a PATA and SATA cable, and appropriate power cables out the hole. Or just run it with the cover off. It's not like it'll run often.... Have a CD drive in it with a copy of DBAN in the drive. Plug in a drive, hit the power switch, and walk away.
Not to mention...you have some fun in the process.:)
Although, I can't imagine running it through a DoD wipe with DBAN would be recoverable, and then the drive is reusable. We already have enough electronic junk going in landfills, so I find destroying drives rather than properly wiping them to be particularly distasteful.
Didn't Windows XP SP1 do this, which was released in....oh, I don't know....maybe September 2002?
As to checking a database to see if they're allowed to connect....isn't that basically MAC filtering? The only difference is, it doesn't display "Verboten!" on the interface. Hardly a patentable innovation....
Exactly. If you ignore it because it's unenforceable, then what happens when 5 years down the road they figure out some way to _actually_ enforce it.
You'll complain, but your complaint will be meaningless, because "It's been that way for 5 years, and you're only just complaining now? If this was a problem, you would have brought it up before now. Obviously you're not as concerned as you say you are. We'll go ahead as planned."
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As much as it makes sense from a tinfoil hat perspective, I don't think Norton/Symantec writes any viruses at all.
Why?
Because if they did, you would expect their security software would actually be at least marginally functional.
We all know it's not.....
You mean the 39+ at virustotal.com when you encounter a suspicious file....
"Since late 2005..." is not 5++ years.
It's not even 4 years.
Been doing your time calculations with Excel?
That last one is still available for me. Just downloaded it.
And a girl with a wicked sense of humour at that. :)
Yup. Clean bill of health.
My mother was the same way until she got to her late 40s.
I'm quite certain it's just a genetic high metabolism....
Not really surprising, considering that Macgrrl is, well, a girl....
Yeah....I'm a skinny bastard. 5'10", 138 lbs @ 34 years old.
I eat like a horse...whatever I want, whenever I want it. Don't think about calories at all.
Since leaving high school I've gained a total of maybe 15 lbs. And not for lack of trying....
People say I'm really lucky that I don't have to watch what I eat. But between the grocery bill, and being hungry most of the time, I'm not sure it's that beneficial. :)
And no, I don't have a tapeworm...
Probably because:
1. You can turn the feature off in the browser. (At least, I'd hope so.)
2. The browser doesn't have the ability to pass laws that make you a criminal.
3. You don't pay taxes to your browser, only to have it track you in return.
4. ????
5. You get the picture.
Yes, but IRM and DRM are two completely different things.
IRM allows a company to control who gets to see their own documents.
DRM allows a company to control what consumers have to repurchase.
The difference being, that the company using IRM is in control of their own use of their own internal documents, while the company using DRM is attempting to control the entire public's use of files that are meant to be used by the public.
Having said that, IRM can still be a pain for whistleblowers attempting to alert the public to something illegal their company is doing.
voila, a workable student ID that can be generated from the user's data on the secure systems, but finding any secret info from the student ID number is virtually impossible, other than the date they started with the university.
Until some dumbass admin who thinks "I know what I'm doing. It'll be fine." starts downloading trojanned cracks from infected-keygens.biz on the secure server....
I really didn't even have time to write a script to do it, I had to login to the server, and use Pine to turn everyone's mail into just another folder that I could access and I manually went in and had to find and delete the mail from like 300 people's inboxes.
Obviously, to this day, I'm nearly certain that a not insignificant fraction of the staff had actually downloaded it from the POP3 server before I could get to it, but I was too frenzied to actually get a count as I was tabbing around and deleting like a mad man.
Why wasn't your first thought to turn off the POP3 server and any webmail or other access people might have had?
Sure, it's a pain, and you'll get helpdesk calls asking "Why can't I get email?" Just say, "There's a problem with the server, we're working on it." If you have an internal technical website (and you should, which should also be policy that it's the first place for people to check when they have a problem with something other than their own computer not turning on), post a quick message on it stating that there's a problem with the email system - and you're not lying - and it will be resolved as soon as possible.
Then, take an hour or so to write your script, don't answer the phone, start it running, and go to lunch.
When you get back, check a random sampling of mailboxes to make sure it's gone, fire up POP3 again, and send a message to the HR moron, stating that it was determined that the attachment they sent was flagged by your security filters as being a potential breach, which is what shut down the email system, and not to ever do anything that stupid again.
You're not supposed to moderate so much on the topic, as the amount of information and presentation of said info.
If they bring forward a point you don't agree with, but fully support it with evidence, logical arguments, etc, then you mod it up, or at least, don't mod it down.
If they just say "Lunix/Winblows/CrackOS sucks cuz my homie knows a guy who's friend got a virus on it!" well...then you troll mod into oblivion.
Comments of "I agree" don't add anything useful to the conversation, and only serve to fill up the database tables of /. servers, so these sometimes get downmodded.
Comments that state a point and try to back it up with random web links that don't even support their view, posted in the hope of readers thinking "He's got references. Must be right." without even reading said links, should also be modded down.
You're right, though, it can be difficult to properly mod, due to your own preconceptions interfering. But you've kind of got to put yourself outside the discussion, and see it from that point of view.
That's very likely why you can't comment and mod the same story. If you get involved in the conversation, the preconceptions become even more solid and difficult to put aside when moderating. That, and people (read: jerks) will mod down anybody who responds to their postings and disagrees with them....
Of course, if somebody puts forth a radically stupid idea, no matter how well supported with anecdotal evidence (I read about a guy who got trapped in a sinking car because he couldn't get his seatbelt undone, so nobody should have to wear seatbelts because they obviously kill people!) then you still have a right to mod down. Although there should be a "-1 Moron" mod for that....
I'd think anything that specialized would be so low volume as to be as expensive as a PC, even though it's much simpler.
My suggestion:
Next time you or a friend upgrades their computer, or you find one on the side of the road (maybe with data on it..), or whatever, grab it.
Pull all the nonessential parts - HD, vid card if it's got onboard or you have a low power junker sitting around - so it uses less power. Cut a hole in the side of the case, and run a PATA and SATA cable, and appropriate power cables out the hole. Or just run it with the cover off. It's not like it'll run often....
Have a CD drive in it with a copy of DBAN in the drive.
Plug in a drive, hit the power switch, and walk away.
Not to mention...you have some fun in the process. :)
Although, I can't imagine running it through a DoD wipe with DBAN would be recoverable, and then the drive is reusable. We already have enough electronic junk going in landfills, so I find destroying drives rather than properly wiping them to be particularly distasteful.
When I open my laptop in a dense AP area, and check for wireless networks, I see:
linksys Automatic
Unsecured wireless network
dlink Automatic
Unsecured Wireless network
store348
Security Enabled wireless network
shop
Security Enabled wireless network (WPA)
Your security sucks
Unsecured wireless network
My Business Network Automatic
Security Enabled wireless network (WPA)
See those three "Automatic" labels? That's displayed by checking a database to see if I'm authorized to access that network.
Didn't Windows XP SP1 do this, which was released in....oh, I don't know....maybe September 2002?
As to checking a database to see if they're allowed to connect....isn't that basically MAC filtering? The only difference is, it doesn't display "Verboten!" on the interface. Hardly a patentable innovation....
The question now becomes, what happens to all that information?
Simple. It gets sold on eBay along with their servers.....
you really need to bring out what you mean to be truly taken as inciteful.
Such an insightful typo....
Exactly. If you ignore it because it's unenforceable, then what happens when 5 years down the road they figure out some way to _actually_ enforce it.
You'll complain, but your complaint will be meaningless, because "It's been that way for 5 years, and you're only just complaining now? If this was a problem, you would have brought it up before now. Obviously you're not as concerned as you say you are. We'll go ahead as planned."
The people who thought up this scheme are obviously stupid. How do people get into Management?
I would think the statement answers the question..... :-)
Ya, hoser!
Think of the bacon, eh!
Oh, yeah...
And the beer.
Hoser.
English: 192.168.24.68
Swedish: 192.168.24.68
German: 192.168.24.68
French: 192.168.24.68
Italian: 192.168.24.68
See how easy that was?
NSA has access to all american CA root certificates.
Not the one I made myself.
Besides...gpg doesn't use root certificates.
It also depends on whether it's "first match", or "apply all rules in order, then evaluate result."