With my English Vista, typing "cm" into the Start Menu also does nothing. But, that's because the Start Menu isn't the command prompt -- we're lucky it finds executable files at all.
Fortunately, my brain tells me that since it's searching on friendly name, there are a few possibilities to improve the launching of "cmd."
First, stop calling it that! It's called command prompt. Open the start menu, type "co", and there it is! (Look, ma, no extra keystrokes!!!)
Second, make a shortcut somewhere in the Start Menu for cmd. You'll then be able to use it as you might like.
Third, just type it out already. It's three letters: cmd. We've both already wasted more time here than any one person could ever save by shorting those three letters down to two.
Except, of course, for the fact that rsync isn't P2P. The questioner would end up flooding a central server (an issue which was noted in the question).
With BitTorrent's hash checking, clients are unable to poison the torrent.
Therefore, in order for widespread infection to happen, it'd have to occur at the source. This is just about exactly as likely to happen with BitTorrent as it is with any other distribution method (from rsync, to postal service, to armed couriers).
1. We'll forget about security, just as we do with USB. Local devices can stay locally attached, if that's all the user desires, and security will then be a function of the attached host.
2. Gigabit switch at the desk? Perhaps. Have you priced switches lately? USB also suffered from low host port count for many years after it was released, but desktop machines are now often equipped with 8 of them. I see no particularly good reason to assume that history would not repeat itself by increasing port count in accordance with popularity.
3. There's no reason for most of this stuff to head back to a central closet somewhere. But, then, there's not really a very good reason for it to be positively unable to.
4. Don't care, personally. The address space is 48 bits large. 281,474,976,710,656 addresses. If you think that's not enough, then the mythological desktop Ethernet can extend it to something bigger.
I've broken a lot more than that -- maybe five, or six. Ever. Out of many thousands of interconnects with RJ45 connectors. (I did also have exactly one incident in which a damaged cable mangled the pins inside of an RJ45 jack, but even that equals rather good odds of success.)
Perhaps you should be more careful.
There's a lot of things that Ethernet does well, too: 100 meter cable lengths, user-installable connectors, ungrounded differential signaling, excellent electrical isolation, trivial to bridge long distances wirelessly, easy to turn one port into dozens with inexpensive switches, etc.
USB is a huge pain in the ass, comparatively.
I say: Bring on the Ethernet-connected mice, keyboards, hard drives, flash readers, and MP3 players. It doesn't have to be IP and require a weighty protocol stack. It doesn't have to be secure. It just has to be Ethernet.
My thumbdrive (a Sandisk Cruzer Micro, the only thumbdrive I've ever found which fits securely next to my car keys) lives on my keyring. It hangs from the beltloop of my pants on a carabiner, and is always right there whenever it is not in use elsewhere.
So let's be practical. I don't think anybody is going to steal the thumbdrive on a key ring which is attached to my pants, along with my laptop, as long as I'm vigilant in removing the thumbdrive from my laptop whenever I'm out of sight of said laptop.
It's just not very likely to happen.
If it does happen, I'll be right there to chase, pummel, and stab the thief with my finely-honed knife until such a time as they unhand my stuff. And then I'll have my stuff back.
So. Realistically: Given the scenario presented by OP, either the thief would steal a totally non-functional laptop, lacking the USB drive to make it work (who cares? The machine might be gone, but the data is safe), or the thief would have to steal my laptop right out from under my nose along with an attached USB drive.
If what OP presented actually exists, and unfortunately it doesn't seem that it does, then I wouldn't be worried at all. My laptop would either be cryptographically secure and the information therein safe, or it would be in my immediate possession and protected by me personally.
And in this latter case, there's easier targets for a thief to steal. They'll take the laptop on the next table, or in the next train car, where the owner has left it unprotected.
So, again: If such technology existed in an easily-used form, my data would be very safe indeed.
(Unless, of course, they very purposefully show up with a gun. But when firearms enter the scenario, it's pretty plain that no amount of security is sufficient, short of auxiliary guards, in protecting the data on a portable computer.)
What are you, Jewish? Begone with you and your Yiddish, to the gas chamber!
[ObDisclaimer: Sarcasm. Dark humor. But I've got plenty of karma to burn, and next week, I'll still have more mod points to than you. I expect that the forthcoming discussion, coupled with my 5-digit Slashdot UID of "adolf," will be far more meaningful than anything which might otherwise appear in this ill-placed and laughable YRO article. (Isn't this the sort of article that idle.slashdot.org is for?) Feel free to disagree and discuss, below.]
There may never have been a time of greatness and good virtue. And if there was, we (all 6.7 billion of us) have probably mostly forgotten it. You're right about that.
I'll be remembered, though, by my children. If I'm lucky, my grandchildren will also remember me. And if I'm really playing my cards right and live long enough, my great grandchildren will also remember me.
That's enough fame for me. It's plenty of reason for me to always try to be fair, just, and to aspire for greatness, no matter how insignificant, and no matter the cost.
Feel free to disagree. We're not married; do as you will.
Hey, guess what? As long as we're being stereotypical, please allow me to assert that you must be from the South, being that you're inbred as far as you are. You just might be a redneck if your family tree has no branches. I'll bet your sister is your favorite aunt, and the lazy-eyed kids you two have together must sure be special. Et cetera, and so on, and so forth. Ad nauseum. Ad infinitum.
But I digress.
We don't really have any evidence that these folks have done anything wrong, because if we did, we'd have a trial for them, and THEN we'd have locked them up forever, or for however long their crimes may warrant. Meanwhile, there's no reason to torture anyone. Whether it be water-boarding, thumbscrews, humiliation, or simple sleep deprivation brought on by 16 hours of loud music followed by a 4 hour respite of quiet, it's torture.
And, as a GTA-playing tinnitus sufferer, torture is just not how I want to see things done. This is not the America that I want to be a part of.
You don't like being called inbred without any supporting evidence, I'd guess. And I don't like jailing terrorists without a public trial.
To each his own, I suppose. I'm all for defending the country, but without limits on how we treat all humans, we're no better than any other offensive, fear-mongering, repressive society of the past.
I want to be remembered as having lived during a time of greatness and good virtue, not insolence.
In the US, handheld cell phones are limited by FCC rules to 0.6 Watts.
WiFi isn't as tightly controlled, but is generally less than one Watt radiated.
The 50,000 Watt AM transmitter on the way to work isn't likely a very big deal, either, as you pass by. RF energy falls off pretty quick as you get further away from the antenna.
But an 800W transmitter, five meters away? Yikes. And that's not all: It's not as if the thing only outputs 800W -- it's putting out enough power to recieve 800W, five meters away.
I'm not one to be afraid of a little RF exposure (part of my day job involves climbing towers with live, transmitting antennas on them), but I don't think I want one of these next to my desk.
I've already solved my laptop's power problem, anyway: When I bought the thing from Dell, I picked up an extra AC adapter for it. This adapter spends 100% of its time plugged in at home in my office, just in case I want to use the laptop for an extended period. It's very painless, and it just works.
Cable TV already does this -- they want paid for access to their tubes. We, as Time Warner Cable customers, recently lost our ability to watch the local Fox affiliate for a few weeks.
Why?
Cable company wanted paid to carry Fox, while Fox wanted paid to be carried on Cable. This went on and on, with various hateful ads about Time Warner appearing on Fox prior to the blackout. And then, one day, it was dark.
Eventually, they figured it out. Not sure who is paying who, or if they just went back to the ages-old arrangement wherein no money changes hands. But it's back, for now.
It doesn't really matter to me, in this instance. All I watch on Fox is House, and it's easy enough to snag episodes from TPB.
But if I sed s/Cable/AT&T/ and also sed s/Fox/Google/, it'd be a very sorry state of affairs.
Wikipedia's page about sound power has a table with a few examples. It states that a helicopter produces 0.01 Watts of sound, while a machine gun makes just 10 Watts.
Let's assume, then, that the gentleman's motorcycle is Really Fucking Loud, and produces about a Watt worth of sound. This is only 0.00134102209 horsepower wasted as sound.
I think we've all got better things to worry about than amount of energy wasted making sound with gasoline-fueled piston engines.
Please tell me more about this thing you speak of, this "local JavaScript (used for site compatibility fixes)."
Because when I read that the first time, all I saw was "LIES." If Opera is able to silently and transparently modify specific web sites so that it is able to render them properly, then who is to say that it's actually capable of properly doing all of the things tested in Acid 3?
This is sounding a little like when ATI was silently tweaking their drivers to have specific settings which were automatically adjusted to run specific benchmarks as fast as possible (or in the case of Opera/Acid, a predetermined output as accurately as possible).
I mean, of course they can do that. No problem. But it's still lies.
Tell me, sir: How does a moron a dense as you grow a title as lofty as "engineer?"
Cuz, I mean, your analogies are just as fucked as the last time they were shown to be wrong. For that matter, the components of them aren't even analogs of eachother! I make a copy of your software and you lose exactly nothing. You take my peace, and I don't fucking have it anymore.
Can you spot the difference?
Now, then, if you want to COPY my sense of peace, you're more than welcome to if you can figure out how to do it. And if you somehow manage to do it, I've lost nothing -- I'll still have my peace. Just because you've made a copy of my peace doesn't mean that the original was destroyed -- I'll be just as peaceful as ever, no matter how many generational copies of my peacefulness exist in the world.
It's so groovy, man. Can you dig it? Peace and love for everyone!
Copying and stealing are two different things. When I copy DVDs so my kids can't destroy my entire Disney collection in a single act, Disney loses nothing. I've taken nothing from anyone -- it's not as if I went into their fucking factory with jackboots and a shotgun and demanded replacement DVDs. All I did was copy something intangible.
Please think. This involves logic. You're supposed to be good at this.
(Oh. And, no, there's no valid reason to copy console games except to cover up sloppiness and accidents. And that, sir, is a good enough reason for me. There is still no harm, and it's still my property. I'll do with it as I please. If that means that I duplicate a title 800 times, and then cut up the original along with 799 of the remaining copies, then so be it. There is no harm, and it's my stuff in my house. Remember that it's your job for you to look after your own stuff. But it's not your job to look after my stuff -- that's my problem. Got that, chief? You can be as efficient and neat as you like, and I get to be as inefficient and wasteful as I like. It's not like we're fucking married.)
While I've generally been a big fan of Superfetch and Readyboost, in concept, I can't stand them in practice.
It seems to me, during the 4 times that I've experienced a new Vista install (on three different PCs), that Superfetch really does help for the first few days: Common programs tend to start nearly instantaneously, and the OS seems to mediate disk access much like you suggest. After that, it gets slower and slower. Eventually, it gets so slow that booting and running the computer and starting programs with Superfetch turned off are all faster than keeping it on.
Please note I haven't put much effort into discovering the root cause, and am only reporting the symptoms that I've experienced. YMMV, etc.
Well-signed is an understatement. In Lima, Ohio, the power company has rented multiple billboards around town, to warn people not to steal copper from substations. "Cut copper, cut your life," they say, and look something like this.
Your comment isn't directed to me, but I want to answer it anyway:
When I buy food at a restaurant, eat some of it, and am sufficiently unsatisfied by it to leave without paying, tangible food has been transferred from the kitchen to my stomach. Therefore, I've gained food, while they've lost both food and the time taken to prepare/serve it.
When I pirate a game, and am unsatisfied by it, the experience of this process is not a tangible thing which is somehow transferred from the publisher to me. I simply gain the experience, and they simply lose nothing.
Please fix your analogy. Thanks!
(Oh, yes: And I back things up to protect them from my children and, moreso, friends of my children. I'd also make backups of their bicycles, and their toys, and even of the children themselves were there an easy, inexpensive, and bit-perfect way of doing so.)
The question, then, is this: How do you structure your resume in such a fashion that the lack of education presented does not result in it being shitcanned immediately?
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With my English Vista, typing "cm" into the Start Menu also does nothing. But, that's because the Start Menu isn't the command prompt -- we're lucky it finds executable files at all.
Fortunately, my brain tells me that since it's searching on friendly name, there are a few possibilities to improve the launching of "cmd."
First, stop calling it that! It's called command prompt. Open the start menu, type "co", and there it is! (Look, ma, no extra keystrokes!!!)
Second, make a shortcut somewhere in the Start Menu for cmd. You'll then be able to use it as you might like.
Third, just type it out already. It's three letters: cmd. We've both already wasted more time here than any one person could ever save by shorting those three letters down to two.
Except, of course, for the fact that rsync isn't P2P. The questioner would end up flooding a central server (an issue which was noted in the question).
With BitTorrent's hash checking, clients are unable to poison the torrent.
Therefore, in order for widespread infection to happen, it'd have to occur at the source. This is just about exactly as likely to happen with BitTorrent as it is with any other distribution method (from rsync, to postal service, to armed couriers).
I'd like to enumerate my retorts.
1. We'll forget about security, just as we do with USB. Local devices can stay locally attached, if that's all the user desires, and security will then be a function of the attached host.
2. Gigabit switch at the desk? Perhaps. Have you priced switches lately? USB also suffered from low host port count for many years after it was released, but desktop machines are now often equipped with 8 of them. I see no particularly good reason to assume that history would not repeat itself by increasing port count in accordance with popularity.
3. There's no reason for most of this stuff to head back to a central closet somewhere. But, then, there's not really a very good reason for it to be positively unable to.
4. Don't care, personally. The address space is 48 bits large. 281,474,976,710,656 addresses. If you think that's not enough, then the mythological desktop Ethernet can extend it to something bigger.
Any other problems?
You've only broken two of them? Out of how many?
I've broken a lot more than that -- maybe five, or six. Ever. Out of many thousands of interconnects with RJ45 connectors. (I did also have exactly one incident in which a damaged cable mangled the pins inside of an RJ45 jack, but even that equals rather good odds of success.)
Perhaps you should be more careful.
There's a lot of things that Ethernet does well, too: 100 meter cable lengths, user-installable connectors, ungrounded differential signaling, excellent electrical isolation, trivial to bridge long distances wirelessly, easy to turn one port into dozens with inexpensive switches, etc.
USB is a huge pain in the ass, comparatively.
I say: Bring on the Ethernet-connected mice, keyboards, hard drives, flash readers, and MP3 players. It doesn't have to be IP and require a weighty protocol stack. It doesn't have to be secure. It just has to be Ethernet.
Can you read Slashdot with that?
YES!
Nyet.
My thumbdrive (a Sandisk Cruzer Micro, the only thumbdrive I've ever found which fits securely next to my car keys) lives on my keyring. It hangs from the beltloop of my pants on a carabiner, and is always right there whenever it is not in use elsewhere.
So let's be practical. I don't think anybody is going to steal the thumbdrive on a key ring which is attached to my pants, along with my laptop, as long as I'm vigilant in removing the thumbdrive from my laptop whenever I'm out of sight of said laptop.
It's just not very likely to happen.
If it does happen, I'll be right there to chase, pummel, and stab the thief with my finely-honed knife until such a time as they unhand my stuff. And then I'll have my stuff back.
So. Realistically: Given the scenario presented by OP, either the thief would steal a totally non-functional laptop, lacking the USB drive to make it work (who cares? The machine might be gone, but the data is safe), or the thief would have to steal my laptop right out from under my nose along with an attached USB drive.
If what OP presented actually exists, and unfortunately it doesn't seem that it does, then I wouldn't be worried at all. My laptop would either be cryptographically secure and the information therein safe, or it would be in my immediate possession and protected by me personally.
And in this latter case, there's easier targets for a thief to steal. They'll take the laptop on the next table, or in the next train car, where the owner has left it unprotected.
So, again: If such technology existed in an easily-used form, my data would be very safe indeed.
(Unless, of course, they very purposefully show up with a gun. But when firearms enter the scenario, it's pretty plain that no amount of security is sufficient, short of auxiliary guards, in protecting the data on a portable computer.)
chutzpah
What are you, Jewish? Begone with you and your Yiddish, to the gas chamber!
[ObDisclaimer: Sarcasm. Dark humor. But I've got plenty of karma to burn, and next week, I'll still have more mod points to than you. I expect that the forthcoming discussion, coupled with my 5-digit Slashdot UID of "adolf," will be far more meaningful than anything which might otherwise appear in this ill-placed and laughable YRO article. (Isn't this the sort of article that idle.slashdot.org is for?) Feel free to disagree and discuss, below.]
You're missing the sarcasm gene. Perhaps, some day, medical science will be able to fix that for you.
Until then, good luck out there.
There may never have been a time of greatness and good virtue. And if there was, we (all 6.7 billion of us) have probably mostly forgotten it. You're right about that.
I'll be remembered, though, by my children. If I'm lucky, my grandchildren will also remember me. And if I'm really playing my cards right and live long enough, my great grandchildren will also remember me.
That's enough fame for me. It's plenty of reason for me to always try to be fair, just, and to aspire for greatness, no matter how insignificant, and no matter the cost.
Feel free to disagree. We're not married; do as you will.
Hey, guess what? As long as we're being stereotypical, please allow me to assert that you must be from the South, being that you're inbred as far as you are. You just might be a redneck if your family tree has no branches. I'll bet your sister is your favorite aunt, and the lazy-eyed kids you two have together must sure be special. Et cetera, and so on, and so forth. Ad nauseum. Ad infinitum.
But I digress.
We don't really have any evidence that these folks have done anything wrong, because if we did, we'd have a trial for them, and THEN we'd have locked them up forever, or for however long their crimes may warrant. Meanwhile, there's no reason to torture anyone. Whether it be water-boarding, thumbscrews, humiliation, or simple sleep deprivation brought on by 16 hours of loud music followed by a 4 hour respite of quiet, it's torture.
And, as a GTA-playing tinnitus sufferer, torture is just not how I want to see things done. This is not the America that I want to be a part of.
You don't like being called inbred without any supporting evidence, I'd guess. And I don't like jailing terrorists without a public trial.
To each his own, I suppose. I'm all for defending the country, but without limits on how we treat all humans, we're no better than any other offensive, fear-mongering, repressive society of the past.
I want to be remembered as having lived during a time of greatness and good virtue, not insolence.
In the US, handheld cell phones are limited by FCC rules to 0.6 Watts.
WiFi isn't as tightly controlled, but is generally less than one Watt radiated.
The 50,000 Watt AM transmitter on the way to work isn't likely a very big deal, either, as you pass by. RF energy falls off pretty quick as you get further away from the antenna.
But an 800W transmitter, five meters away? Yikes. And that's not all: It's not as if the thing only outputs 800W -- it's putting out enough power to recieve 800W, five meters away.
I'm not one to be afraid of a little RF exposure (part of my day job involves climbing towers with live, transmitting antennas on them), but I don't think I want one of these next to my desk.
I've already solved my laptop's power problem, anyway: When I bought the thing from Dell, I picked up an extra AC adapter for it. This adapter spends 100% of its time plugged in at home in my office, just in case I want to use the laptop for an extended period. It's very painless, and it just works.
YMMV.
Cable TV already does this -- they want paid for access to their tubes. We, as Time Warner Cable customers, recently lost our ability to watch the local Fox affiliate for a few weeks.
Why?
Cable company wanted paid to carry Fox, while Fox wanted paid to be carried on Cable. This went on and on, with various hateful ads about Time Warner appearing on Fox prior to the blackout. And then, one day, it was dark.
Eventually, they figured it out. Not sure who is paying who, or if they just went back to the ages-old arrangement wherein no money changes hands. But it's back, for now.
It doesn't really matter to me, in this instance. All I watch on Fox is House, and it's easy enough to snag episodes from TPB.
But if I sed s/Cable/AT&T/ and also sed s/Fox/Google/, it'd be a very sorry state of affairs.
But that's not legal.
It ought to be, of course. It just, very simply, isn't.
I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
What version of Asterisk was that, again?
You're very slow. Look at the numbers again: It can BE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE, AND STILL BE JUST ABOUT FUCKING INSIGNIFICANT.
Really. Fucking. Nothing. To. See. Here.
Thanks!
Yeah. Noise is wasted power.
But not bloody much of it.
Wikipedia's page about sound power has a table with a few examples. It states that a helicopter produces 0.01 Watts of sound, while a machine gun makes just 10 Watts.
Let's assume, then, that the gentleman's motorcycle is Really Fucking Loud, and produces about a Watt worth of sound. This is only 0.00134102209 horsepower wasted as sound.
I think we've all got better things to worry about than amount of energy wasted making sound with gasoline-fueled piston engines.
Move along.
Please tell me more about this thing you speak of, this "local JavaScript (used for site compatibility fixes)."
Because when I read that the first time, all I saw was "LIES." If Opera is able to silently and transparently modify specific web sites so that it is able to render them properly, then who is to say that it's actually capable of properly doing all of the things tested in Acid 3?
This is sounding a little like when ATI was silently tweaking their drivers to have specific settings which were automatically adjusted to run specific benchmarks as fast as possible (or in the case of Opera/Acid, a predetermined output as accurately as possible).
I mean, of course they can do that. No problem. But it's still lies.
Tell me, sir: How does a moron a dense as you grow a title as lofty as "engineer?"
Cuz, I mean, your analogies are just as fucked as the last time they were shown to be wrong. For that matter, the components of them aren't even analogs of eachother! I make a copy of your software and you lose exactly nothing. You take my peace, and I don't fucking have it anymore.
Can you spot the difference?
Now, then, if you want to COPY my sense of peace, you're more than welcome to if you can figure out how to do it. And if you somehow manage to do it, I've lost nothing -- I'll still have my peace. Just because you've made a copy of my peace doesn't mean that the original was destroyed -- I'll be just as peaceful as ever, no matter how many generational copies of my peacefulness exist in the world.
It's so groovy, man. Can you dig it? Peace and love for everyone!
Copying and stealing are two different things. When I copy DVDs so my kids can't destroy my entire Disney collection in a single act, Disney loses nothing. I've taken nothing from anyone -- it's not as if I went into their fucking factory with jackboots and a shotgun and demanded replacement DVDs. All I did was copy something intangible.
Please think. This involves logic. You're supposed to be good at this.
(Oh. And, no, there's no valid reason to copy console games except to cover up sloppiness and accidents. And that, sir, is a good enough reason for me. There is still no harm, and it's still my property. I'll do with it as I please. If that means that I duplicate a title 800 times, and then cut up the original along with 799 of the remaining copies, then so be it. There is no harm, and it's my stuff in my house. Remember that it's your job for you to look after your own stuff. But it's not your job to look after my stuff -- that's my problem. Got that, chief? You can be as efficient and neat as you like, and I get to be as inefficient and wasteful as I like. It's not like we're fucking married.)
While I've generally been a big fan of Superfetch and Readyboost, in concept, I can't stand them in practice.
It seems to me, during the 4 times that I've experienced a new Vista install (on three different PCs), that Superfetch really does help for the first few days: Common programs tend to start nearly instantaneously, and the OS seems to mediate disk access much like you suggest. After that, it gets slower and slower. Eventually, it gets so slow that booting and running the computer and starting programs with Superfetch turned off are all faster than keeping it on.
Please note I haven't put much effort into discovering the root cause, and am only reporting the symptoms that I've experienced. YMMV, etc.
Well-signed is an understatement. In Lima, Ohio, the power company has rented multiple billboards around town, to warn people not to steal copper from substations. "Cut copper, cut your life," they say, and look something like this.
Your comment isn't directed to me, but I want to answer it anyway:
When I buy food at a restaurant, eat some of it, and am sufficiently unsatisfied by it to leave without paying, tangible food has been transferred from the kitchen to my stomach. Therefore, I've gained food, while they've lost both food and the time taken to prepare/serve it.
When I pirate a game, and am unsatisfied by it, the experience of this process is not a tangible thing which is somehow transferred from the publisher to me. I simply gain the experience, and they simply lose nothing.
Please fix your analogy. Thanks!
(Oh, yes: And I back things up to protect them from my children and, moreso, friends of my children. I'd also make backups of their bicycles, and their toys, and even of the children themselves were there an easy, inexpensive, and bit-perfect way of doing so.)
The question, then, is this: How do you structure your resume in such a fashion that the lack of education presented does not result in it being shitcanned immediately?
Whatever it was, it wasn't "copy and paste." The iPhone can't do that.