Teachers in many subjects are also hard to come by. I know when I was still in high school (almost a decade ago now), we had more English, history and French teachers than we knew what to do with, butcould never find enough science and math teachers (nevermind well qualified ones).
Public schools are funded by the state One of the criterion for receiving state money is attendance The problem is low attendance, which results in less state money They're trying to improve attendance in order to increase how much state money they get
Of course, the real problem is that state money is based on income rather than students actually learning anything.
I'm just wondering what they do if the trunk has a different key from the doors and you don't give them that key. I've known a number of cars (mostly 90's models and older or rebuilt) that use different keys for doors, trunk and ignition.
It's because valet cars are left in front of the terminal building for up to an hour, unattended. Whereas everyone else has to leave fairly quickly and go park in a big lot away from everything else. This makes valet cars much easier to deliver a bomb to the terminal.
My landlord has keys to my apartment, but I still have a reasonable expectation for him not to just show up in the middle of the night. Likewise, I have a domain admin account but I'm expected not to go snooping through every file share. Just because someone has access in order to do a specific job doesn't mean they have permission, implicit or explicit, to do other things.
It's restricted to valet cars because 1) they're left in front of the terminal for up to an hour while other cars are in the middle of a mostly unpopulated parking lot.
The valet is instructed to look in the trunk when they first get the car. So just set the bomb to detonate when the trunk is opened. That way you guarantee 1) you will be safely away from your bomb and 2) the car will be right where you want it to be when the bomb goes off
96.5 interviewed the guy that broke the news story this morning, and one of their big questions was "Do the valets know what the hell to even look for?" and "What would happen if I left a copy of the Koran on the dash or papers written in Arabic on the seat?".
I don't oppose them giving a quick glance around the interior of the car (you did give them permission to get inside) or underneath it, but opening the trunk is going too far in my opinion.
We've established the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the edge of Cyberspace to reduce to dark ages after the fall of Microsoft from 30,000 years to a mere 1,000. Wait, wrong Foundation and wrong Empire.
It's more of a liability issue, that's why we're not too concerned with which AV they use. They sign off on their computer being protected, and if it gets infected, it's on them. Most people bitch about having to sign off on having some form of malware protection because "it's a Mac"
Agreed. One of the other posters pointed out that Sandy did as much damage as it did in part because of the effect of the moon and the tides. Now, I'm no climate scientist, but I was completely unaware that global warming was affecting the moon's gravitational pull.
If there's 100 different low probability events, then there's a decent chance of any two of those happening in consecutive years. Unless there's some correlation between the two that makes them unlikely to happen together, it's no more special than any other coincidence.
I think he means that if you flip it 50 million times, the odds are better for that 1000-heads sequence to show up at some point than if you flip it 5000 times. That said, I don't really see how that's applicable to hurricanes, except perhaps if we're getting more hurricanes per year then it's more likely that a given hurricane will emulate Sandy?
A proper anti-virus should work quietly behind the scenes. There's no such thing as a fool-proof AV any more than there's a 100% effective vaccine. For every infected machine we have, we have several dozen more that report blocking infections or at least crippling the malware.
The definition in the article is "ransomware is malware which restricts access to the computer it infects, spamming the user with prompts that demand a ransom paid for functionality to be reinstated"
I'd say it qualifies. It restricts access to the computer. Malware usually follows the KISS principle better than most other software, which is one of the reasons why it can become so widespread even though a commercial software package can be a pain in the ass to get it to work. If your software absolutely, positively has to run on every possible computer, talk to a malware author.
We've had issues with employees who want to use their Mac on our network and then raising hell at being required to put an antivirus on it before we'll allow them to connect (we don't even specify an antivirus... any old one will do as long as it's up to date).
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Teachers in many subjects are also hard to come by. I know when I was still in high school (almost a decade ago now), we had more English, history and French teachers than we knew what to do with, butcould never find enough science and math teachers (nevermind well qualified ones).
It's hell teaching in most states because lawmakers, parents and administrators are competing to see who can prevent kids from learning the most.
Public schools are funded by the state
One of the criterion for receiving state money is attendance
The problem is low attendance, which results in less state money
They're trying to improve attendance in order to increase how much state money they get
Of course, the real problem is that state money is based on income rather than students actually learning anything.
It's the difference between using computers to solve arithmetic and using AI to solve a complex problem.
If you're setting a bomb to go off when they open the trunk, and you give them a key that can't open the trunk, then you're a really shitty terrorist.
I'm just wondering what they do if the trunk has a different key from the doors and you don't give them that key. I've known a number of cars (mostly 90's models and older or rebuilt) that use different keys for doors, trunk and ignition.
It's because valet cars are left in front of the terminal building for up to an hour, unattended. Whereas everyone else has to leave fairly quickly and go park in a big lot away from everything else. This makes valet cars much easier to deliver a bomb to the terminal.
The agents aren't the ones searching the car. And somehow, even though it's untrained valets, I trust them more than if it were TSA agents...
My landlord has keys to my apartment, but I still have a reasonable expectation for him not to just show up in the middle of the night. Likewise, I have a domain admin account but I'm expected not to go snooping through every file share. Just because someone has access in order to do a specific job doesn't mean they have permission, implicit or explicit, to do other things.
It's restricted to valet cars because 1) they're left in front of the terminal for up to an hour while other cars are in the middle of a mostly unpopulated parking lot.
The valet is instructed to look in the trunk when they first get the car. So just set the bomb to detonate when the trunk is opened. That way you guarantee 1) you will be safely away from your bomb and 2) the car will be right where you want it to be when the bomb goes off
The TSA are ordering searches of the cars. They aren't doing it themselves. A private, untrained, third-party is the one doing the search.
96.5 interviewed the guy that broke the news story this morning, and one of their big questions was "Do the valets know what the hell to even look for?" and "What would happen if I left a copy of the Koran on the dash or papers written in Arabic on the seat?".
I don't oppose them giving a quick glance around the interior of the car (you did give them permission to get inside) or underneath it, but opening the trunk is going too far in my opinion.
We've established the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the edge of Cyberspace to reduce to dark ages after the fall of Microsoft from 30,000 years to a mere 1,000. Wait, wrong Foundation and wrong Empire.
It's more of a liability issue, that's why we're not too concerned with which AV they use. They sign off on their computer being protected, and if it gets infected, it's on them. Most people bitch about having to sign off on having some form of malware protection because "it's a Mac"
Agreed. One of the other posters pointed out that Sandy did as much damage as it did in part because of the effect of the moon and the tides. Now, I'm no climate scientist, but I was completely unaware that global warming was affecting the moon's gravitational pull.
Then we had some bad luck. Or God hates us. You pick.
You can't mitigate every single potential risk, you have to look at the odds of a given risk occurring and prioritize response based on that.
If there's 100 different low probability events, then there's a decent chance of any two of those happening in consecutive years. Unless there's some correlation between the two that makes them unlikely to happen together, it's no more special than any other coincidence.
I think he means that if you flip it 50 million times, the odds are better for that 1000-heads sequence to show up at some point than if you flip it 5000 times. That said, I don't really see how that's applicable to hurricanes, except perhaps if we're getting more hurricanes per year then it's more likely that a given hurricane will emulate Sandy?
Or that cheap.
Safari isn't OS-specific either, but the primary Safari market is OS X users. So if it's exploiting Safari, then it's probably aimed at Mac users.
Are you saying you don't use an AV on any of your machines?
A proper anti-virus should work quietly behind the scenes. There's no such thing as a fool-proof AV any more than there's a 100% effective vaccine. For every infected machine we have, we have several dozen more that report blocking infections or at least crippling the malware.
The definition in the article is "ransomware is malware which restricts access to the computer it infects, spamming the user with prompts that demand a ransom paid for functionality to be reinstated"
I'd say it qualifies. It restricts access to the computer. Malware usually follows the KISS principle better than most other software, which is one of the reasons why it can become so widespread even though a commercial software package can be a pain in the ass to get it to work. If your software absolutely, positively has to run on every possible computer, talk to a malware author.
We've had issues with employees who want to use their Mac on our network and then raising hell at being required to put an antivirus on it before we'll allow them to connect (we don't even specify an antivirus... any old one will do as long as it's up to date).