Subvert the bootsector, wait for the mark to key in the password, and store it for later in the clear. Maid returns the next day, collects the password, optionally images the disk. Done.
It's Mac only, but it really is VERY good. I've been searching for something for non-Mac (three-platform opensource ideal, Windows-only acceptable), and nothing comes close in terms of having a grandma-intuitive interface, reliable barcode scanning, and good metadata lookup. Delicious Library is the gold standard for home library management as far as I'm concerned.
According to the site, if the show doesn't happen, the early-in's get a full refund. So kind of like Kickstarter except they take your money then give it back instead of waiting until the project funds to actually charge you. Assuming the site doesn't go under in the mean time, you shouldn't be out anything if the show doesn't happen.
I'm not quite ready to call renting movies or having a credit card a human right. If you can't do those things without broadband... Well... That's unfortunate, but it's hardly going to kill you.
Granted, if you have mandatory government "services" that require it like paying your taxes, then I start to see where you're going. Don't have email, can't pay your taxes any other way, go to jail. Okay... That's starting to make email a necessity of existing legally in society. Prior to that point though, the things I've personally seen that require email/Net access to do haven't crossed over into anything that you need to do.
Now on the flip side, for a government to attempt to block access, I would consider that an infringement of basic rights in the sense that it's censorship. But for it to not be provided to you if you can't otherwise afford it isn't something I see as an issue. Odds are pretty good there's a library that will give you access for free, and you can sign up for (?:G|Hot|Yahoo)Mail gratis.
The last time I had to activate Windows via phone, I entered the code, and it hung up on me. It did that repeatedly calling every few days over the course of a month. Finally said fsck it and installed Gentoo on the thing.
I won't pay for software I have to ask permission to use. I won't build my business on software that can arbitrarily stop working if some monkey pushes the wrong patch to the activation servers. If you're going to treat me like a pirate even if you have my money, then I'll just keep my money. Arrrr...
Nope MS won't sign for anything that doesn't maintain chain of trust. If they sign a shim, it's only allowed to chain to a signed bootloader that only chains to *signed* kernels that only load signed kmods. If you try to submit anything for signing to MS that would allow loading unsigned code anywhere along the path, it gets rejected.
I'm not sure that dismissing a hybrid integrated / discreet video laptop as a "corner case" is entirely fair. Quite a few laptops have been made in that configuration, and it does make a pretty tremendous improvement in battery life to use the lesser GPU when you don't need the extra power of the discreet chip.
I'd personally say any case where Linux is left unable to use performance or battery life increasing features of a laptop is a pretty bad situation. Certainly for me to sell Mom & Dad on, "Here's your new OS! It kind of looks the same, but your battery only lasts half as long." Yeah Not gonna fly...
Stand on the street corner, *just* off the casino's property on the public sidewalk / shoulder of the road / etc. Hold a huge sign stating nothing but the facts of the case: We played the slots, the machine said we won big, the casino claimed technical difficulties and reneged on the large payout for a comparatively minuscule one. Stand there quietly with the sign, don't harass anyone approaching the casino, and only respond purely factually to any questions that any would-be patrons or other passers by might ask. Embelish nothing; use simple, unemotional, declarative statements. Say nothing that could vaguely be interpreted as opinion or that would be impossible to verify.
Say nothing untrue, nothing emotionally charged, stay *off* the casino's property, and do nothing to block anyone or prevent them from going about their business as they see fit.
See how long that takes to get at the very least a settlement offer. I'm guessing the casino manager would have legal on the phone in under 10 minutes and an offer made in under an hour. Might have to sweat them a little longer to hold out for a *reasonable* offer, but they'd definitely walk away a fair bit richer than the insult the casino gave them.
All of our servers are based on Greek or Roman mythology. We have a high-availability failover box for one of our more important servers. The server MUST absolutely be "up at all times".
True to a point, but hardly absolute. I have a right to breath. If I have a cold and sound like Darth Vader and that annoys you, the fact that my right to breath has annoyed you (quite possibly infringing on your right to sit in peace and quiet) does not in any way grant you the right to terminate my breathing.
In this case, Federal law says that air waves are public and that I have a right to use them. There is no Federal law that protects you from listening to me talk in a restaurant. In this case, my legally protected rights trump yours. Sorry... If you don't like it, write your Congresspersons.
That said, as every responsible cell user before me has posted: Use vibrate, use the phrase, "Hi! Can I call you back in a minute?", and that should about do it.
I'm quite certain that my reaction to finding a jammer in use would be to simply take it and destroy it. Go ahead. Call the police on me. Which charge is more likely to stick: My destroying your property which is in fact ILLEGAL to even possess, or you violating Federal law operating an unlicensed transmitter device with the express intent of interfering with licensed communications.
No, but being the one and only option in town (IE a monopoly) is remarkably good at attracting customers. Kill all the VOIP's, and the only choice for a land line is the incumbent monopoly provider. That would be Verizon for a rather large portion of the country.
My defense of my distro (not that it needs one) is as follows:
Gentoo transfers the power to choose dependencies from the package maintainer to the end user. Prime example: distcc (the distributed C compiler daemon, a Gentoo user's friend) has a GTK based monitoring application as an optional feature. Compiling that app requires GTK (and thus X and a whole pile of dependencies). With Gentoo's USE flag system, you may choose to either:
USE="-gtk" emerge distcc # for a quick, light, compiler-only distcc
-or-
USE="gtk" emerge distcc # For the whole #!...
On other distro's, I'd have to live with the packager's choice of either including GTK (and thus having to install X even on the headless server I keep in the closet as part of the compile farm), or not including GTK and never having a GUI to monitor distcc. I'm sure there are numerous similar examples on my own system.
Another one that comes immediately to mind is PHP, which has tons of optional dependencies. On a production server, turning on the minimal required components gives me a lighter system, quicker install, and likely improved security from reducing the amount of code exposed to the web. On my dev box, I go for broke and turn everything on so I can play with all the bits & pieces PHP has to offer.
You never run into the case where, "my distro didn't include feature 'X' so I need to download it myself and compile it into/usr/local".
Point being, there was no need for them to authorize it. With or with out any show-y declaration, the Pres can play at war all he wants. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq (twice), and I'm sure numerous other scuffles across the globe that predate my memory.
> Did you forget that it requires an act of Congress to declare war
Why, no. I didn't forget that. It seems our fearsome leader may have though. Considering that he's never asked for nor been granted a formal declaration of war against Iraq.
Would the laws in question apply to a public bulletin board on the side of a building down town? I don't think it's too much of a legal stretch to say that CraigsList equates far more to a public board than to a newspaper.
To place an ad in the paper, you (usually) have to pay money. The simple act of paying $1 a line (or whatever) invokes all kinds of interesting areas of law where things of value (cash, goods, services, etc.) are exchanged. Craigs has no such exchange of valuable consideration which should exempt it from an awful lot of things.
Now... With them starting to charge for listings in certain areas (like NYC, I think), that could open a whole new can of worms for them...
That's why most stores (probably not Wally World, though) consider the PSX to be serialzed inventory. They scan the serial number barcode when you buy it. Try to return a unit with a different serial, and they'll know. I know at least Best Buy does that.
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See Bruce Schneier's "Evil Maid" described elsewhere on this thread. Encrypted volumes don't protect against an attack at the bootsector level. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_attac.html
Subvert the bootsector, wait for the mark to key in the password, and store it for later in the clear. Maid returns the next day, collects the password, optionally images the disk. Done.
It's Mac only, but it really is VERY good. I've been searching for something for non-Mac (three-platform opensource ideal, Windows-only acceptable), and nothing comes close in terms of having a grandma-intuitive interface, reliable barcode scanning, and good metadata lookup. Delicious Library is the gold standard for home library management as far as I'm concerned.
According to the site, if the show doesn't happen, the early-in's get a full refund. So kind of like Kickstarter except they take your money then give it back instead of waiting until the project funds to actually charge you. Assuming the site doesn't go under in the mean time, you shouldn't be out anything if the show doesn't happen.
I'm not quite ready to call renting movies or having a credit card a human right. If you can't do those things without broadband... Well... That's unfortunate, but it's hardly going to kill you.
Granted, if you have mandatory government "services" that require it like paying your taxes, then I start to see where you're going. Don't have email, can't pay your taxes any other way, go to jail. Okay... That's starting to make email a necessity of existing legally in society. Prior to that point though, the things I've personally seen that require email/Net access to do haven't crossed over into anything that you need to do.
Now on the flip side, for a government to attempt to block access, I would consider that an infringement of basic rights in the sense that it's censorship. But for it to not be provided to you if you can't otherwise afford it isn't something I see as an issue. Odds are pretty good there's a library that will give you access for free, and you can sign up for (?:G|Hot|Yahoo)Mail gratis.
Not unlike roaches, there's never just one.
The last time I had to activate Windows via phone, I entered the code, and it hung up on me. It did that repeatedly calling every few days over the course of a month. Finally said fsck it and installed Gentoo on the thing.
I won't pay for software I have to ask permission to use. I won't build my business on software that can arbitrarily stop working if some monkey pushes the wrong patch to the activation servers. If you're going to treat me like a pirate even if you have my money, then I'll just keep my money. Arrrr...
Nope MS won't sign for anything that doesn't maintain chain of trust. If they sign a shim, it's only allowed to chain to a signed bootloader that only chains to *signed* kernels that only load signed kmods. If you try to submit anything for signing to MS that would allow loading unsigned code anywhere along the path, it gets rejected.
I'm not sure that dismissing a hybrid integrated / discreet video laptop as a "corner case" is entirely fair. Quite a few laptops have been made in that configuration, and it does make a pretty tremendous improvement in battery life to use the lesser GPU when you don't need the extra power of the discreet chip.
I'd personally say any case where Linux is left unable to use performance or battery life increasing features of a laptop is a pretty bad situation. Certainly for me to sell Mom & Dad on, "Here's your new OS! It kind of looks the same, but your battery only lasts half as long." Yeah Not gonna fly...
No! And for thinking it sounded like one, you shall now be sued for patent infringement!
Stand on the street corner, *just* off the casino's property on the public sidewalk / shoulder of the road / etc. Hold a huge sign stating nothing but the facts of the case: We played the slots, the machine said we won big, the casino claimed technical difficulties and reneged on the large payout for a comparatively minuscule one. Stand there quietly with the sign, don't harass anyone approaching the casino, and only respond purely factually to any questions that any would-be patrons or other passers by might ask. Embelish nothing; use simple, unemotional, declarative statements. Say nothing that could vaguely be interpreted as opinion or that would be impossible to verify.
Say nothing untrue, nothing emotionally charged, stay *off* the casino's property, and do nothing to block anyone or prevent them from going about their business as they see fit.
See how long that takes to get at the very least a settlement offer. I'm guessing the casino manager would have legal on the phone in under 10 minutes and an offer made in under an hour. Might have to sweat them a little longer to hold out for a *reasonable* offer, but they'd definitely walk away a fair bit richer than the insult the casino gave them.
All of our servers are based on Greek or Roman mythology. We have a high-availability failover box for one of our more important servers. The server MUST absolutely be "up at all times".
The HA failover for it is named Priapus.
And in case you need it spelled out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
Above link *might* be marginally offensive if you can't handle tasteful paintings of ancient Greek schlongs...
True to a point, but hardly absolute. I have a right to breath. If I have a cold and sound like Darth Vader and that annoys you, the fact that my right to breath has annoyed you (quite possibly infringing on your right to sit in peace and quiet) does not in any way grant you the right to terminate my breathing.
In this case, Federal law says that air waves are public and that I have a right to use them. There is no Federal law that protects you from listening to me talk in a restaurant. In this case, my legally protected rights trump yours. Sorry... If you don't like it, write your Congresspersons.
That said, as every responsible cell user before me has posted: Use vibrate, use the phrase, "Hi! Can I call you back in a minute?", and that should about do it.
I'm quite certain that my reaction to finding a jammer in use would be to simply take it and destroy it. Go ahead. Call the police on me. Which charge is more likely to stick: My destroying your property which is in fact ILLEGAL to even possess, or you violating Federal law operating an unlicensed transmitter device with the express intent of interfering with licensed communications.
iPeen, not to be confused with ballPeen which in this context sounds like it would be excessively uncomfortable.
No, but being the one and only option in town (IE a monopoly) is remarkably good at attracting customers. Kill all the VOIP's, and the only choice for a land line is the incumbent monopoly provider. That would be Verizon for a rather large portion of the country.
My defense of my distro (not that it needs one) is as follows:
/usr/local".
Gentoo transfers the power to choose dependencies from the package maintainer to the end user. Prime example: distcc (the distributed C compiler daemon, a Gentoo user's friend) has a GTK based monitoring application as an optional feature. Compiling that app requires GTK (and thus X and a whole pile of dependencies). With Gentoo's USE flag system, you may choose to either:
USE="-gtk" emerge distcc # for a quick, light, compiler-only distcc
-or-
USE="gtk" emerge distcc # For the whole #!...
On other distro's, I'd have to live with the packager's choice of either including GTK (and thus having to install X even on the headless server I keep in the closet as part of the compile farm), or not including GTK and never having a GUI to monitor distcc. I'm sure there are numerous similar examples on my own system.
Another one that comes immediately to mind is PHP, which has tons of optional dependencies. On a production server, turning on the minimal required components gives me a lighter system, quicker install, and likely improved security from reducing the amount of code exposed to the web. On my dev box, I go for broke and turn everything on so I can play with all the bits & pieces PHP has to offer.
You never run into the case where, "my distro didn't include feature 'X' so I need to download it myself and compile it into
What better to give a SysAdmin than chocolate chip cookies with extra caffeine?
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http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/
Our two main SA's got a dozen each this morning w/ milk waiting for them in the fridge.
Russian scientists did this kind of work on dogs in the 1940's. There's video of the procedures on archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940
WARNING: Not for the squeemish...
Because they have more money than god, and you don't.
QED.
(Ducks; runs)
Man-glish... Isn't that what Tim Allen speaks?
No, no... You just *license* the farm. MS still owns it. For a nominal fee, they'll let you step in the cow pies every second Tuesday.
Point being, there was no need for them to authorize it. With or with out any show-y declaration, the Pres can play at war all he wants. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq (twice), and I'm sure numerous other scuffles across the globe that predate my memory.
> Did you forget that it requires an act of Congress to declare war
Why, no. I didn't forget that. It seems our fearsome leader may have though. Considering that he's never asked for nor been granted a formal declaration of war against Iraq.
Would the laws in question apply to a public bulletin board on the side of a building down town? I don't think it's too much of a legal stretch to say that CraigsList equates far more to a public board than to a newspaper.
To place an ad in the paper, you (usually) have to pay money. The simple act of paying $1 a line (or whatever) invokes all kinds of interesting areas of law where things of value (cash, goods, services, etc.) are exchanged. Craigs has no such exchange of valuable consideration which should exempt it from an awful lot of things.
Now... With them starting to charge for listings in certain areas (like NYC, I think), that could open a whole new can of worms for them...
That's why most stores (probably not Wally World, though) consider the PSX to be serialzed inventory. They scan the serial number barcode when you buy it. Try to return a unit with a different serial, and they'll know. I know at least Best Buy does that.
Ummm... Nobody reverse engineer the PC to clone it. IBM published this nice big manual with all the details anyone needed.