I remember as a kid, some of the best books I had came from purchasing books at a book fair held at the school. Do they still have them? Maybe the profits from bookfairs would help you in your other endeavors. You want to interest people in the world of ideas. Don't try to push them towards technology....thats the idea you have specialized on. Think scholars, not geeks.
With regards to the SSL stuff? Should I disable all SSL certs in the browser and then enable only the ones that my https sites ask for? Or is it safe to leave them alone. Or will it break everything if I disable them since I won't know which to turn back on? And what about non-browser ssl traffic? Does the update service use ssl libraries too? Isnt there a separate certs list for ssl programs that are not browsers?
Their letter says they want to charge him that much for adding security to -their- website. To prevent changes to their data. It doesn't add any value to his service at all. Just theirs. How do people live with themselves.
There are a lot of financial levers that might make it seem like people had no choice but to sell their organs. And those levers would quickly be used by death-by-spreadsheet monsters. The only thing that I think might mitigate this horrible idea is if the organ sale was for some other life-saving service. IE no money is involved, but a trade in organs or services. You give up this kidney which will save someones life, and in return you get medical care which will save your own life. Or your childs life. You give up your organ (that doesn't match) for someone elses that does. But it should never be money. Money allows too much distance from the act. It provides blinders to the horror of it all. And the military gets its support through state-sponsored propaganda at the public's expense. Do you want to be bombarded with ads about how you should "give up your kidney today" sponsored by your government?
the act of anarchy you seems to believe. There is value in starting from scratch. They weren't being paid, and they learned a lot as part of the process. Maybe you don't like the end product, but I'm sure they enjoy the fruits of their exploration: the knowledge and experience they gained.
Maybe these systems dont actually need all the bells and whistles of networking to communicate their state. Maybe an output-only serial communications solution would be perfect for some of these systems. They can alert when they have a problem without exposing a bi-directional communications channel through tcpip. In fact, you could even cut the pins on the serial and guarantee that nothing comes in. Its the ultimate one-way firewall. Im not saying that all of the systems can run this way, but I bet many of them can.
And anyone would look a little groggy and unsteady on their feet when they are being bled dry. There was a report I read recently that the Pentagon could not account for a trillion dollars missing. The system is upside down. The people with the most power should live locally and be elected locally. The way it stands, the people with the most power will never come up for election in your state.
You solution would just result in unsuitable people being there longer. The real solution is to make their job much less important. To re-distribute those powers that congress has amassed and push them back out to the states. Let the states be responsible for their own roads and bridges. Let the states be responsible for their own housing and medical/health. They could do it better...if they were collecting the majority of the tax revenue instead of the Federal government. The problem with congress is that they have centralized too much power and responsibility and they cannot do it well. The states aren't children anymore. They need to grow up and become little countries of their own.
And should not be under appreciated. Not only because of the political stuff, but just to keep people connected to the company. The worst thing in the world is to be abandoned by your management. It sucks. And management is a real skill. There are people who think they are managers and then there people with real skill at managing people. And it seems to start with being a decent human being, but goes way further. The best people I ever worked for were former IBMers. IBM builds great managers.
Even if your device is encrypted, you will have to throw it away after they hand it back to you. If you boot it, you are going to be running their code and they own the machine regardless of the encryption. I know at least one corporation that will not let its employees travel oversees with laptops.
Clone the original drive before you make any changes or investment in the new machine. That way, you can go back to the original factory finish any time you want. It will give you extra confidence in making changes or installing other operating systems. You should not rely on the re-installation tools provided by the manufacturer. They don't always work.
A pilot has a license and has to be tested and qualify. And he risks losing his livelyhood if he misbehaves with a plane. He risks his life too. These drones have no geometry for mounting a tail identification. And the operator has no license to put in jeopardy. He can even claim that the unit was on autofly at the time of an incident. Or he can claim that someone else was operating or interfering with the operation of the aircraft. Therefore there is no accountability.
There will be nobody enforcing the laws. There will be no prosecutions. Any law enacted will be solely for the purposes of a generating a comforting soundbite on the news. So lets not bother.
If you never want to see a comment by a poster again, then you hit the mute button on that person and their comments are never seen again. Like they dont exist. The server can track how many mutes are on a person and if enough are there, then a human can step in and scope the individual and issue a reprimand if necessary. Of course if you mute someone then automatically you are muted for them...its always bi-directional whoever initiates it. Would that be so hard? And maybe your website signup rate is going down because of all the personal information you are requiring during signup and the captcha you are using for proof of life.
throwing away your vote. So you have two choices: Vote for the other major party challenger or voting for the third party challenger. Even if the third party can never win, their increased presence will bend both candidates towards their position to curry their votes. Its not throwing away your vote to vote third party. You don't get a free shake if you win no matter who you vote for.
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Why is there no yum repository for Windows or OSX. It seems like there is plenty of motivation for them to exist.
I remember as a kid, some of the best books I had came from purchasing books at a book fair held at the school. Do they still have them? Maybe the profits from bookfairs would help you in your other endeavors.
You want to interest people in the world of ideas. Don't try to push them towards technology....thats the idea you have specialized on.
Think scholars, not geeks.
With regards to the SSL stuff? Should I disable all SSL certs in the browser and then enable only the ones that my https sites ask for? Or is it safe to leave them alone. Or will it break everything if I disable them since I won't know which to turn back on? And what about non-browser ssl traffic? Does the update service use ssl libraries too? Isnt there a separate certs list for ssl programs that are not browsers?
Their letter says they want to charge him that much for adding security to -their- website. To prevent changes to their data. It doesn't add any value to his service at all. Just theirs. How do people live with themselves.
If its screen-scraping, does a screensaver mess it all up?
It will also make backups easy since you can clone from one disk to the other.
There are a lot of financial levers that might make it seem like people had no choice but to sell their organs. And those levers would quickly be used by death-by-spreadsheet monsters. The only thing that I think might mitigate this horrible idea is if the organ sale was for some other life-saving service. IE no money is involved, but a trade in organs or services. You give up this kidney which will save someones life, and in return you get medical care which will save your own life. Or your childs life. You give up your organ (that doesn't match) for someone elses that does.
But it should never be money. Money allows too much distance from the act. It provides blinders to the horror of it all.
And the military gets its support through state-sponsored propaganda at the public's expense. Do you want to be bombarded with ads about how you should "give up your kidney today" sponsored by your government?
the act of anarchy you seems to believe. There is value in starting from scratch. They weren't being paid, and they learned a lot as part of the process. Maybe you don't like the end product, but I'm sure they enjoy the fruits of their exploration: the knowledge and experience they gained.
But that plan kind of pooped out.
Maybe these systems dont actually need all the bells and whistles of networking to communicate their state. Maybe an output-only serial communications solution would be perfect for some of these systems. They can alert when they have a problem without exposing a bi-directional communications channel through tcpip. In fact, you could even cut the pins on the serial and guarantee that nothing comes in. Its the ultimate one-way firewall.
Im not saying that all of the systems can run this way, but I bet many of them can.
within chaos and then go "Wrong again!! Oh thats just brilliant!." Or something like that.
new burn-phone once. That was less than fun: "Hmm, who would forge an email address and buy a burn-pho....crap crap crap crap"
Is that still the case now? Seems like the consoles might be siphoning away some of those gamer sales.
Just give it a little time folks. You will have your answer just like the rest of the world, only sooner.
And anyone would look a little groggy and unsteady on their feet when they are being bled dry. There was a report I read recently that the Pentagon could not account for a trillion dollars missing. The system is upside down. The people with the most power should live locally and be elected locally. The way it stands, the people with the most power will never come up for election in your state.
You solution would just result in unsuitable people being there longer. The real solution is to make their job much less important. To re-distribute those powers that congress has amassed and push them back out to the states. Let the states be responsible for their own roads and bridges. Let the states be responsible for their own housing and medical/health. They could do it better...if they were collecting the majority of the tax revenue instead of the Federal government.
The problem with congress is that they have centralized too much power and responsibility and they cannot do it well.
The states aren't children anymore. They need to grow up and become little countries of their own.
Can you really blame them for wanting out of the LE business. Its not like they see any big wins as a result of their work.
And should not be under appreciated. Not only because of the political stuff, but just to keep people connected to the company. The worst thing in the world is to be abandoned by your management. It sucks. And management is a real skill. There are people who think they are managers and then there people with real skill at managing people. And it seems to start with being a decent human being, but goes way further.
The best people I ever worked for were former IBMers. IBM builds great managers.
Even if your device is encrypted, you will have to throw it away after they hand it back to you. If you boot it, you are going to be running their code and they own the machine regardless of the encryption.
I know at least one corporation that will not let its employees travel oversees with laptops.
Clone the original drive before you make any changes or investment in the new machine. That way, you can go back to the original factory finish any time you want. It will give you extra confidence in making changes or installing other operating systems.
You should not rely on the re-installation tools provided by the manufacturer. They don't always work.
How so?
A pilot has a license and has to be tested and qualify. And he risks losing his livelyhood if he misbehaves with a plane. He risks his life too. These drones have no geometry for mounting a tail identification. And the operator has no license to put in jeopardy. He can even claim that the unit was on autofly at the time of an incident. Or he can claim that someone else was operating or interfering with the operation of the aircraft. Therefore there is no accountability.
There will be nobody enforcing the laws. There will be no prosecutions. Any law enacted will be solely for the purposes of a generating a comforting soundbite on the news. So lets not bother.
If you never want to see a comment by a poster again, then you hit the mute button on that person and their comments are never seen again. Like they dont exist. The server can track how many mutes are on a person and if enough are there, then a human can step in and scope the individual and issue a reprimand if necessary. Of course if you mute someone then automatically you are muted for them...its always bi-directional whoever initiates it. Would that be so hard?
And maybe your website signup rate is going down because of all the personal information you are requiring during signup and the captcha you are using for proof of life.
throwing away your vote. So you have two choices: Vote for the other major party challenger or voting for the third party challenger. Even if the third party can never win, their increased presence will bend both candidates towards their position to curry their votes.
Its not throwing away your vote to vote third party. You don't get a free shake if you win no matter who you vote for.