But blocking one single website when the information is available in many, many places is not reasonable.
Perhaps the better route is this:
All computers that have classified information should not have any non/de-classified information on them. Any classified machine that has any non-classified information shall deem to have been breached and an inquiry started as improper access was achieved.
Seems to me, it is entirely to easy to get classified information on a declassified computer with no malice or crime. The Army's current method tries to lock every door, the latter locks the door with the secrets. Yes, you can do both.
If it is available from a public web site then the information is no longer "classified", but public knowledge. You can not put the genie back in the bottle. The internet has no delete button and the Army has no neuralizers.
The thinking and the process here is flawed. Once information is leaked it should be "de-classified", since that's what it is. To continue trying to operate as though the leaked information is still somehow magically top-secret is insanity.
Wouldn't almost any managed switch with a command line interface or SNMP do this? You could remotely and on a scheduled basis tell the switch to enable or disable traffic to the port that your equipment is connected to. No ethernet, no internet, no remote access.
Anyone with a metal lathe can also manufacture a completely untraceable firearm. So perhaps because there's a small chance that someone will do that, then use that firearm to injure another person all metal lathes need to be serialized, registered and tracked.
Or anyone that can buy pipe. All pipes must herefor be sold only after a full background check since it is possible to fill a pipe with explosives and blow up large numbers of people.
Liquid chlorine bleach and ammonia will require 40 hours of intensive training before you may purchase either item, otherwise someone could mix the two and poison an entire building of people.
People killing other people is a social problem. No technology or law will stop it. If making things illegal stopped crime then we would not need the police to clean up after all this crime!
"back in the day" CEOs made a few times what an average employee did. Now they make 150 times what an average employee does. The executives saw all that 'savings' and gave it to themselves.
But it is. petrol (gasoline) readily evaporates at room temperature and pressure. The evaporation point has nothing to do with the boiling point. most liquids (all?) evaporate well before they boil, water being the most common example.
What reliability issues are there with a TDI? Mine is 9 years old with 270,000 miles on it. A few fuel filters, a fuel pump and two timing belts (all scheduled maintenance) are all that's been done to it. It does not smoke, I intermittently run it on BioDiesel or straight veg oil. It still gets an average 40MPG and highway cruising is in the upper 40s. I can drive from Phoenix,AZ to LA and about 2/3 of the way back on a single tank. I also (about once a month) tow 1,200lbs of hay bales behind my car on a small trailer.
I don't know of ANY electric or hybrid vehicle that claim these things. Until a 100% electric car can be re-fueled in less than 10 minutes they are impractical for a large portion of the population. For my life, time is money and time spent re-fueling is a waste of money.
I'll get a hybrid when they start making diesel electric models, like all the trains and ships in the world.
Probably not. I've never been in a car that locked out neutral at any speed. You probably just have to press the shifter lock button to get to N from D at speed.
That's a lot of "stuff" to build a structure to basically encircle a star. I've venture to say it would take more physical material than comprises most habitable planets.
The process is ugly, but that's not a valid reason to hide the process from the world. If scientists are just going to provide the end result as a decree to which we are all supposed to adhere, then what you have is a religion.
When you decide to obscure or hide away the scientific process, you kill science.
It's the answers. For the best security the answers should have nothing to do with the question, just like you see in all those old spy movies:
Q: What is your favorite color A: walkaboutclock
Q: What was the name of the street you grew up on? A: g!blix05
When only the account holder can possibly know the answers then there can be no social engineering to bypass the security.
None of this, of course, has any effect if policies and procedures at the vendor site allow for the questions to be bypassed. As I have posted elsewhere, we don't know the contents of the alleged call; the operator could have been threatened, blackmailed, bribed or even an accomplice.
However completely unlike the airport scanners these devices will need to clear FDA and FCC regulations and inspection/testing. The people who operate them will have to take classes and be certified and licensed to operate the device. The devices themselves will be licensed and inspected on a regular basis by the state boards of health.
None of this is seems true for the airport systems.
Perhaps we should require a new transmission setting in all cars. When the transmission is in this new setting the engine would be free to do whatever it wanted but it would be disconnected from the remainder of the drivetrain and the brakes would only have to work against the inertia of the vehicle. I propose we call the new setting/gear ARV for "Anti-Runaway Vehicle". Clearly the existing Neutral settings are not working.
BTW: VW implemented what the article suggests years ago. In my Golf if I have the throttle at any setting above idle and step on the brake for more than about 2 seconds the computer disconnects the throttle and brings the engine to idle.
Or you know... just put the transmission in Neutral. I was taught this in drivers ed decades ago.
Fuel prices go up. ALL prices go up. Everyone wants more pay so corporate expenses go up so prices go up so the cost of living goes up so everyone wants more pay (repeat ad infinitum)
$5.00/gal is a non-event in the long run. 40 years ago we where whining about 50/gal. 40 years from now we'll be whining about $20/gal. get over it.
What I find REALLY funny is that the people stand outside at the pump and complain about $4.00/gal then go inside an pay the rate of up to $10/gal for coffee, water, soda, etc. $1.20 for 1L of water is $4.50/gal. Remember: this stuff comes out of your faucet for more like $.001/gal.
Shut up, think, make wiser decisions. We'll all be better off.
Why would a plane with so much advanced electronics on board not have a check system or pre-flight checklist item to look for such an installed plug. Supposed a swarm of bees had built a nest in there and blocked it instead of the mechanic's error?
If something as simple as a plugged vent can cause complete and catastrophic damage to the craft then there needs to be pre/in flight monitoring of that system. Seems a simple pressure gauge in the tank would have prevented this situation from becoming life threatening.
He's not well respected, just well known. Many cosmologists and astro-physists say Hawking is mostly irrelevant to the fields and may have actually set them back by years with his popular but incorrect theories which get overwhelmingly too much attention by the media. Hawking is a mediocre cosmologist at best. If he weren't confined to a wheel chair and using a computer to speak for him, no-one would be paying attention to anything he says.
"Signal measurements indicate that there is adequate RF between the access points..."
RF strength is simply not enough information to determine the issue with your network. You've got signal/noise, echo and multi-path issues to deal with, at least, in a wooded environment. Saying you've got lots of RF strength is like saying that because you've got lots of volume in a loud room, yes it's loud, but you can barely understand the person you are talking to.
"Unidirectional antennas at the APs..."
Why? How are they connected? simply strung in to an aggregator and fed in to the AP, or does the AP have multiple antenna inputs designed for several Unis? Seems multiple uni antennas on an AP would aggravate the echo and multi-path issues I mentioned above and a single high-gain omni would be better suited.
This is all, of course, a dramatic over-simplification.
While these departments probably do need to be scaled back, this is not the way to solve the deficit/debt issues.
Current US budget deficit is about $1,500 billion Total cuts proposed: 11.4 billion
That's only a reduction of a very small fraction of 1%. Absolutely negligible. It's about as effective as going to a regional flood, taking away a bucket of water and saying "there, I fixed it."
The military budget hovers around $700 billion. Reigning in the military so they are once again simply charged with protecting the continental United States from foreign attack and shrinking the budget appropriately (lets say 30%) would be immensely more functional as a remedy at about $220 billion in savings.
Healthcare totals about $1,600 billion in the federal budget. Get tort reform and mal-practice sorted out, reign in the absurd salaries that hospital executives can make and you can cut 30% out of healthcare as well for another $480 billion in savings.
Lets see, I'm up to $700 billion, half the deficit already.
Eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank system, go back on the gold standard and you eliminate another $200 billion in interest payments the governments pays just to have dollars in circulation. Not an easy task, I know.
The USPS could reduce costs a tremendous amount if they stopped with the all-coverage simplified address bulk mailing schemes. It requires the letter carriers to visit every address on every street. It requires a lot more fuel to carry all the mail pieces. If Bulk mail were charged at the same rate as standard first class mail, the USPS would not be in this financial mess.
bulk mail discounts are a race to the bottom (loose money on each piece, but make it up in volume)) mentality that has not worked for anyone in the long term.
UPS/FedEx do not have to visit every house, but they do service every house, or at least the overwhelming majority. They don't go down a street unless there is something to deliver there; saves time, fuel and money. USPS is in the business of making sure there is something to deliver at every address.
As for USPS shipping faster? I disagree. FedEx and UPS ground are much faster then USPS. The priority packages may be lower cost at USPS, but I always have to go get them from the post office instead of having them left at my door, so there is no cost savings in the end.
UPS and FedEx probably DO have more business because of the internet; they have better services (like tracking and employees who care). USPS only has most of the business it does have by acting as an advertising distribution company.
If the USPS wants to stop the hemorrhage of cash they top pissing off the retail customers (or potential customers) by:
1. Stop the rate reduction of bulk mailings so everyone pays the same 2. Enable rules that allow people to STOP mailings they do not want 3. STAFF the service desks in your locations so there isn't a 30 person line waiting for help
As it stands the USPS has entered a race to the bottom along with the bulk/junk mailers. Contantly reducing bulk mailing rates to get pieces moving. The reason seems to be that the managers and supervisors are paid bonuses on piece movement, not profit.
USPS has had a failing business model for decades. I personally am happy to see it finally catch up with them. Now if we can just prevent Congress from doing anything stupid like throwing more cash at them.
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But blocking one single website when the information is available in many, many places is not reasonable.
Perhaps the better route is this:
All computers that have classified information should not have any non/de-classified information on them. Any classified machine that has any non-classified information shall deem to have been breached and an inquiry started as improper access was achieved.
Seems to me, it is entirely to easy to get classified information on a declassified computer with no malice or crime. The Army's current method tries to lock every door, the latter locks the door with the secrets. Yes, you can do both.
If it is available from a public web site then the information is no longer "classified", but public knowledge. You can not put the genie back in the bottle.
The internet has no delete button and the Army has no neuralizers.
The thinking and the process here is flawed. Once information is leaked it should be "de-classified", since that's what it is. To continue trying to operate as though the leaked information is still somehow magically top-secret is insanity.
Wouldn't almost any managed switch with a command line interface or SNMP do this? You could remotely and on a scheduled basis tell the switch to enable or disable traffic to the port that your equipment is connected to.
No ethernet, no internet, no remote access.
Anyone with a metal lathe can also manufacture a completely untraceable firearm. So perhaps because there's a small chance that someone will do that, then use that firearm to injure another person all metal lathes need to be serialized, registered and tracked.
Or anyone that can buy pipe. All pipes must herefor be sold only after a full background check since it is possible to fill a pipe with explosives and blow up large numbers of people.
Liquid chlorine bleach and ammonia will require 40 hours of intensive training before you may purchase either item, otherwise someone could mix the two and poison an entire building of people.
People killing other people is a social problem. No technology or law will stop it. If making things illegal stopped crime then we would not need the police to clean up after all this crime!
"back in the day" CEOs made a few times what an average employee did. Now they make 150 times what an average employee does. The executives saw all that 'savings' and gave it to themselves.
But it is. petrol (gasoline) readily evaporates at room temperature and pressure. The evaporation point has nothing to do with the boiling point.
most liquids (all?) evaporate well before they boil, water being the most common example.
"get in the US because of EPA regulations and weather"
And that perfectly explains why 100% of the trucking in this country is done with diesels.
What reliability issues are there with a TDI? Mine is 9 years old with 270,000 miles on it. A few fuel filters, a fuel pump and two timing belts (all scheduled maintenance) are all that's been done to it. It does not smoke, I intermittently run it on BioDiesel or straight veg oil.
It still gets an average 40MPG and highway cruising is in the upper 40s. I can drive from Phoenix,AZ to LA and about 2/3 of the way back on a single tank.
I also (about once a month) tow 1,200lbs of hay bales behind my car on a small trailer.
I don't know of ANY electric or hybrid vehicle that claim these things. Until a 100% electric car can be re-fueled in less than 10 minutes they are impractical for a large portion of the population. For my life, time is money and time spent re-fueling is a waste of money.
I'll get a hybrid when they start making diesel electric models, like all the trains and ships in the world.
Formaldehyde is a gas a room temperature. The substance used in labs and embalming is formalin, a room temperature liquid of water and formaldehyde.
For a geek site, you should get these sort of things right to start with.
Probably not.
I've never been in a car that locked out neutral at any speed. You probably just have to press the shifter lock button to get to N from D at speed.
Where would all the material come from?
That's a lot of "stuff" to build a structure to basically encircle a star. I've venture to say it would take more physical material than comprises most habitable planets.
The process is ugly, but that's not a valid reason to hide the process from the world. If scientists are just going to provide the end result as a decree to which we are all supposed to adhere, then what you have is a religion.
When you decide to obscure or hide away the scientific process, you kill science.
The fan is ALWAYS on. I think idle for the older Mini's fan is 1,200 RPM and max of about 5,500RPM.
It's the answers. For the best security the answers should have nothing to do with the question, just like you see in all those old spy movies:
Q: What is your favorite color
A: walkaboutclock
Q: What was the name of the street you grew up on?
A: g!blix05
When only the account holder can possibly know the answers then there can be no social engineering to bypass the security.
None of this, of course, has any effect if policies and procedures at the vendor site allow for the questions to be bypassed. As I have posted elsewhere, we don't know the contents of the alleged call; the operator could have been threatened, blackmailed, bribed or even an accomplice.
However completely unlike the airport scanners these devices will need to clear FDA and FCC regulations and inspection/testing. The people who operate them will have to take classes and be certified and licensed to operate the device. The devices themselves will be licensed and inspected on a regular basis by the state boards of health.
None of this is seems true for the airport systems.
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And this just in... light decrease darkness
Perhaps we should require a new transmission setting in all cars. When the transmission is in this new setting the engine would be free to do whatever it wanted but it would be disconnected from the remainder of the drivetrain and the brakes would only have to work against the inertia of the vehicle.
I propose we call the new setting/gear ARV for "Anti-Runaway Vehicle".
Clearly the existing Neutral settings are not working.
BTW: VW implemented what the article suggests years ago. In my Golf if I have the throttle at any setting above idle and step on the brake for more than about 2 seconds the computer disconnects the throttle and brings the engine to idle.
Or you know... just put the transmission in Neutral. I was taught this in drivers ed decades ago.
Fuel prices go up. ALL prices go up. Everyone wants more pay so corporate expenses go up so prices go up so the cost of living goes up so everyone wants more pay (repeat ad infinitum)
$5.00/gal is a non-event in the long run. 40 years ago we where whining about 50/gal. 40 years from now we'll be whining about $20/gal. get over it.
What I find REALLY funny is that the people stand outside at the pump and complain about $4.00/gal then go inside an pay the rate of up to $10/gal for coffee, water, soda, etc. $1.20 for 1L of water is $4.50/gal. Remember: this stuff comes out of your faucet for more like $.001/gal.
Shut up, think, make wiser decisions. We'll all be better off.
Why would a plane with so much advanced electronics on board not have a check system or pre-flight checklist item to look for such an installed plug. Supposed a swarm of bees had built a nest in there and blocked it instead of the mechanic's error?
If something as simple as a plugged vent can cause complete and catastrophic damage to the craft then there needs to be pre/in flight monitoring of that system. Seems a simple pressure gauge in the tank would have prevented this situation from becoming life threatening.
He's not well respected, just well known. Many cosmologists and astro-physists say Hawking is mostly irrelevant to the fields and may have actually set them back by years with his popular but incorrect theories which get overwhelmingly too much attention by the media. Hawking is a mediocre cosmologist at best. If he weren't confined to a wheel chair and using a computer to speak for him, no-one would be paying attention to anything he says.
What's funny about your comment is that Apple is the reason you think of a laptop looking the way it does.
"Signal measurements indicate that there is adequate RF between the access points..."
RF strength is simply not enough information to determine the issue with your network. You've got signal/noise, echo and multi-path issues to deal with, at least, in a wooded environment. Saying you've got lots of RF strength is like saying that because you've got lots of volume in a loud room, yes it's loud, but you can barely understand the person you are talking to.
"Unidirectional antennas at the APs..."
Why? How are they connected? simply strung in to an aggregator and fed in to the AP, or does the AP have multiple antenna inputs designed for several Unis? Seems multiple uni antennas on an AP would aggravate the echo and multi-path issues I mentioned above and a single high-gain omni would be better suited.
This is all, of course, a dramatic over-simplification.
While these departments probably do need to be scaled back, this is not the way to solve the deficit/debt issues.
Current US budget deficit is about $1,500 billion
Total cuts proposed: 11.4 billion
That's only a reduction of a very small fraction of 1%. Absolutely negligible. It's about as effective as going to a regional flood, taking away a bucket of water and saying "there, I fixed it."
The military budget hovers around $700 billion. Reigning in the military so they are once again simply charged with protecting the continental United States from foreign attack and shrinking the budget appropriately (lets say 30%) would be immensely more functional as a remedy at about $220 billion in savings.
Healthcare totals about $1,600 billion in the federal budget. Get tort reform and mal-practice sorted out, reign in the absurd salaries that hospital executives can make and you can cut 30% out of healthcare as well for another $480 billion in savings.
Lets see, I'm up to $700 billion, half the deficit already.
Eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank system, go back on the gold standard and you eliminate another $200 billion in interest payments the governments pays just to have dollars in circulation. Not an easy task, I know.
The USPS could reduce costs a tremendous amount if they stopped with the all-coverage simplified address bulk mailing schemes. It requires the letter carriers to visit every address on every street. It requires a lot more fuel to carry all the mail pieces.
If Bulk mail were charged at the same rate as standard first class mail, the USPS would not be in this financial mess.
bulk mail discounts are a race to the bottom (loose money on each piece, but make it up in volume)) mentality that has not worked for anyone in the long term.
UPS/FedEx do not have to visit every house, but they do service every house, or at least the overwhelming majority. They don't go down a street unless there is something to deliver there; saves time, fuel and money. USPS is in the business of making sure there is something to deliver at every address.
As for USPS shipping faster? I disagree. FedEx and UPS ground are much faster then USPS. The priority packages may be lower cost at USPS, but I always have to go get them from the post office instead of having them left at my door, so there is no cost savings in the end.
UPS and FedEx probably DO have more business because of the internet; they have better services (like tracking and employees who care). USPS only has most of the business it does have by acting as an advertising distribution company.
If the USPS wants to stop the hemorrhage of cash they top pissing off the retail customers (or potential customers) by:
1. Stop the rate reduction of bulk mailings so everyone pays the same
2. Enable rules that allow people to STOP mailings they do not want
3. STAFF the service desks in your locations so there isn't a 30 person line waiting for help
As it stands the USPS has entered a race to the bottom along with the bulk/junk mailers. Contantly reducing bulk mailing rates to get pieces moving. The reason seems to be that the managers and supervisors are paid bonuses on piece movement, not profit.
USPS has had a failing business model for decades. I personally am happy to see it finally catch up with them. Now if we can just prevent Congress from doing anything stupid like throwing more cash at them.