To start, you need a pre-boot scan. The occasional scan from a USB image would provide an integrity check: EFI settings (boot order), bootloader, kernel image, and initrd.
For ordinary programming you don't need math.
And certainly nothing beyond arithmetic.
Right, which is why it should be taught around the same time algebra is taught. Lots of children struggle with the transition to math that isn't all numbers. Having X's and Y's, and other variables takes a surprisingly long time to mentally figure out. But if they had a year of programming (which only involved arithmetic), when algebra would be taught, a lot of the hurdles would already be overcome because they relate the math they're being taught to their programming experiences.
Sorry, I don't buy into all this "we need to get kids using computers and programming in grade school!" crap.
Why is it crap? For years many children have really struggled with why they are learning math (at least above arithmetic). Part of the problem is that they never see how it could possibly be applied to anything, ever. By teaching programming, math can begin to be applied to something; in a way that's not doing math for the sake of doing math. It's doing something, and it just so happens to use a lot of math theory. Learning CS will really strengthen many children's ability to do math, because they'll be doing something with the math, instead of math for the sake of math.
As a reader of Slashdot, I know that Microsoft only exists for the sole purpose of spying on behalf of the US government. So I know that this story is pure fiction. I mean whoever made it up didn't even put much effort into good names; Brad Smith? Come on, that's so generic.
If you don't run a firewall and you and your clients are the only one trying to connect to your server, then people see that running a firewall only interferes with things working. Meetings with management are really fun when they run along the lines of "We turned security on and things started breaking.", "Then turn off the security". So if no one is attacking you, you might make it to market faster with less resources than your competitors when only dealing with security after an incident.
A lot of the shelters are downright evil, though, especially the religious ones. A lot of them really push religion hard, and some of them won't help you if you don't spend an hour in church or whatever. Get 'em while they're vulnerable, then do just enough to make sure they receive your message.
From a cost-benefit point of view, is having your food and housing needs taken care of, in exchange for attending a one hour weekly meeting, really that bad? Many of us here try to go to 40 hours worth of meetings a week to cover our food and housing needs.
I'm pretty sure that the medium for transactions is a decision made by society. If society decided not to allow physical objects to represent legal tender, I don't think that you'd be able to make many financial transactions with the physical object of your choice.
Are you talking about servers/services? If so, every service should have some sort of failover strategy to other hardware. That way anything you need to work on can be failed over during business hours and brought back.
They set the standards for the TCP/IP protocol, the one used by the packets which conspired with the Tor network to move data around untraceably!
Except that she's going after the part that made tracking a source difficult/impossible. With normal TCP/IP you can track where packets are coming from.
You mean the guy screamed about the government spying on us and that we can't trust closed source anything for decades. Guess what he turned out to be right.
But the government is intercepting data primarily from open protocols to do the spying. I don't think that closed source had anything to do with that.
By the time the dust of WW2 had settled, the current system of employer-provided health insurance was firmly established.
I suspect that if Congress didn't provide tax breaks to companies who did employer based health care that the 'firmly established system' would have dried up quite quickly. In fact, I bet if Congress removed the tax break, and instead issued a 1% tax on employer based health insurance, the 'firmly established system' would vanish from everyone's existence in less than one pay cycle.
I get what they're trying to do, but this seems like the wrong approach. You don't fix discrimination with more discrimination, even if it's in the opposite direction.
Until the 'problem' is correct that's exactly what you do; unless hiring assassins to thin out the existing 'problem' is an option.
This right here is why we should be teaching basic programming or scripting in middle school. Show young students how to automate simple tasks and they'll apply it to nearly every field that exists. I remember talking to an IT consultant about the recently released Exchange 2007 (when Exchange went all gung-ho about PowerShell) and he said how he hated the de-emphasis on the GUI and the huge emphasis on PowerShell. "On my first deployment I didn't use PowerShell at all. But by my third one, it was all done by PowerShell scripts."
Storage like this is handy for family photos, I'm not sure I would use it for anything else.
That's the reason I went with flickr. OneDrive will talk about the photo sharing experience, but it kind of sucks. It's great for the scenario of creating a folder of pictures to be shared with one person one time, but on a continuous basis of posting photos for people to see, it sucks. Flickr on the other hand is designed just for photo sharing, and it does it fabulously.
I suspect that should this actually happen the NSA will just pull money from something else to fund their protection of honest, hard working Americans. Money is fungible, it moves easily.
Yes there is. When the government takes out loans to reduce the price of an item, that item is too cheap. Or if the price of the item doesn't cover negative externalities of creating that item, the price is too cheap. In Pre Arab Spring Egypt the price of bread was too cheap. The government was getting into debt subsidizing the price of wheat to keep the masses happy. Once the government was overthrown and the price of bread made it to market values, a lot of Egyptians realized that they now had a bunch of debt on their hands and more expensive food. They look back at that time and say that the price of bread was "too cheap".
Contact Amazon (or whomever is hosting the data) and get all access shut down instantly and immediately, thereby ending the attacker's ability to do anything further.
But what if the attacker is the one contacting Amazon to shutdown everything? Do you want your business shut down by random teenagers calling Amazon, telling them to shut everything down?
If they're going to apply this uniformly, the video of your child dancing is now something they can use for their own profit.
Wasn't that always the motivation behind YouTube? Why else would somebody start a company that allows users to upload their own content, than for the purpose of using that content for your own profit?
We've seen that lie before with the Bush administration and, if I recall, fewer people had as much to say other than "if their systems suck that bad, something should be done about it."
In the Bush email case wasn't the excuse that the mail server had crashed, and after it crashed they found out that the tape backups hadn't been writing, and they never found out until they tried to do a restore? That at least was saying that the emails were on a server, which is where we all know they live. This is saying that the only copies of the emails was on one workstation, which is really hard to believe.
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To start, you need a pre-boot scan. The occasional scan from a USB image would provide an integrity check: EFI settings (boot order), bootloader, kernel image, and initrd.
You mean like the Windows 8 UEFI Secure Boot?
Honestly, forcing computer programming on kids will have the same effect as forcing math on them.
You mean introducing it to them? Without school "forcing" topics on kids, many wouldn't know that those topics even existed.
Instead of getting more people interested in math, I predict it will wind up getting less people interested in CS.
I don't know if it would get more people interested in math, but it would help make math less foreign/absured to them.
For ordinary programming you don't need math. And certainly nothing beyond arithmetic.
Right, which is why it should be taught around the same time algebra is taught. Lots of children struggle with the transition to math that isn't all numbers. Having X's and Y's, and other variables takes a surprisingly long time to mentally figure out. But if they had a year of programming (which only involved arithmetic), when algebra would be taught, a lot of the hurdles would already be overcome because they relate the math they're being taught to their programming experiences.
Sorry, I don't buy into all this "we need to get kids using computers and programming in grade school!" crap.
Why is it crap? For years many children have really struggled with why they are learning math (at least above arithmetic). Part of the problem is that they never see how it could possibly be applied to anything, ever. By teaching programming, math can begin to be applied to something; in a way that's not doing math for the sake of doing math. It's doing something, and it just so happens to use a lot of math theory. Learning CS will really strengthen many children's ability to do math, because they'll be doing something with the math, instead of math for the sake of math.
Instead of fighting it, fix it.
As a reader of Slashdot, I know that Microsoft only exists for the sole purpose of spying on behalf of the US government. So I know that this story is pure fiction. I mean whoever made it up didn't even put much effort into good names; Brad Smith? Come on, that's so generic.
If you don't run a firewall and you and your clients are the only one trying to connect to your server, then people see that running a firewall only interferes with things working. Meetings with management are really fun when they run along the lines of "We turned security on and things started breaking.", "Then turn off the security". So if no one is attacking you, you might make it to market faster with less resources than your competitors when only dealing with security after an incident.
A lot of the shelters are downright evil, though, especially the religious ones. A lot of them really push religion hard, and some of them won't help you if you don't spend an hour in church or whatever. Get 'em while they're vulnerable, then do just enough to make sure they receive your message.
From a cost-benefit point of view, is having your food and housing needs taken care of, in exchange for attending a one hour weekly meeting, really that bad? Many of us here try to go to 40 hours worth of meetings a week to cover our food and housing needs.
not for society to make.
I'm pretty sure that the medium for transactions is a decision made by society. If society decided not to allow physical objects to represent legal tender, I don't think that you'd be able to make many financial transactions with the physical object of your choice.
Why would you ever want a cashless society? Cash is one option you have. Taking it out removes an option and therefore freedom.
So you can audit and authorize where it goes. I can't audit a guy stealing cash from my wallet.
Are you talking about servers/services? If so, every service should have some sort of failover strategy to other hardware. That way anything you need to work on can be failed over during business hours and brought back.
They set the standards for the TCP/IP protocol, the one used by the packets which conspired with the Tor network to move data around untraceably!
Except that she's going after the part that made tracking a source difficult/impossible. With normal TCP/IP you can track where packets are coming from.
You mean the guy screamed about the government spying on us and that we can't trust closed source anything for decades. Guess what he turned out to be right.
But the government is intercepting data primarily from open protocols to do the spying. I don't think that closed source had anything to do with that.
They were against 'after the fact' options.
How is an IUD after the fact?
By the time the dust of WW2 had settled, the current system of employer-provided health insurance was firmly established.
I suspect that if Congress didn't provide tax breaks to companies who did employer based health care that the 'firmly established system' would have dried up quite quickly. In fact, I bet if Congress removed the tax break, and instead issued a 1% tax on employer based health insurance, the 'firmly established system' would vanish from everyone's existence in less than one pay cycle.
I get what they're trying to do, but this seems like the wrong approach. You don't fix discrimination with more discrimination, even if it's in the opposite direction.
Until the 'problem' is correct that's exactly what you do; unless hiring assassins to thin out the existing 'problem' is an option.
This right here is why we should be teaching basic programming or scripting in middle school. Show young students how to automate simple tasks and they'll apply it to nearly every field that exists. I remember talking to an IT consultant about the recently released Exchange 2007 (when Exchange went all gung-ho about PowerShell) and he said how he hated the de-emphasis on the GUI and the huge emphasis on PowerShell. "On my first deployment I didn't use PowerShell at all. But by my third one, it was all done by PowerShell scripts."
Storage like this is handy for family photos, I'm not sure I would use it for anything else.
That's the reason I went with flickr. OneDrive will talk about the photo sharing experience, but it kind of sucks. It's great for the scenario of creating a folder of pictures to be shared with one person one time, but on a continuous basis of posting photos for people to see, it sucks. Flickr on the other hand is designed just for photo sharing, and it does it fabulously.
I suspect that should this actually happen the NSA will just pull money from something else to fund their protection of honest, hard working Americans. Money is fungible, it moves easily.
This is a particularly evil kind of economic event where costs rise and and employment drops.
But what if habits change due to the cost increase? The volume of gas consumed is not an unchangeable constant.
There is no such thing as "too cheap."
Yes there is. When the government takes out loans to reduce the price of an item, that item is too cheap. Or if the price of the item doesn't cover negative externalities of creating that item, the price is too cheap. In Pre Arab Spring Egypt the price of bread was too cheap. The government was getting into debt subsidizing the price of wheat to keep the masses happy. Once the government was overthrown and the price of bread made it to market values, a lot of Egyptians realized that they now had a bunch of debt on their hands and more expensive food. They look back at that time and say that the price of bread was "too cheap".
Contact Amazon (or whomever is hosting the data) and get all access shut down instantly and immediately, thereby ending the attacker's ability to do anything further.
But what if the attacker is the one contacting Amazon to shutdown everything? Do you want your business shut down by random teenagers calling Amazon, telling them to shut everything down?
If they're going to apply this uniformly, the video of your child dancing is now something they can use for their own profit.
Wasn't that always the motivation behind YouTube? Why else would somebody start a company that allows users to upload their own content, than for the purpose of using that content for your own profit?
We've seen that lie before with the Bush administration and, if I recall, fewer people had as much to say other than "if their systems suck that bad, something should be done about it."
In the Bush email case wasn't the excuse that the mail server had crashed, and after it crashed they found out that the tape backups hadn't been writing, and they never found out until they tried to do a restore? That at least was saying that the emails were on a server, which is where we all know they live. This is saying that the only copies of the emails was on one workstation, which is really hard to believe.