Agreed, bought a super shiny Sony TV to go with the super shiny psx and we used to watch youtube vids on it. A couple months later that stopped working and now we are back to using the Rpi for youtube. No updates available, it just stopped working (for whatever reason). Eventually I gave it away and bought a super shiny monitor so that I don't have to pay for a TV license (where I live you have to pay for a TV license if you own a TV, even if you don't watch any of the drivel on public broadcast)
Any and all updates or deletes I ALWAYS do a BEGIN TRANSACTION and ROLLBACK, even when on the dev box. I have had one or two "oh fuck" moments before and this helps. If I am really paranoid or the data is difficult to restore / recover I do a full backup first.
So rent a dedicated line between them, there is no reason to plonk everything onto the internet other than bean counters cutting costs. I can't even begin to count the number of collossal fuckups caused because bean counters made decisions instead of people more qualified on the technical merits of doing xyz because they want to make 0.0001% more of a profit. But hey, I suppose their bonuses are at stake, so fuck everything else.
I disagree, I used to frequent an Italian restuarant (sadly it closed) and by the time I got to my prefferred table either a beer was waiting, or on it's way. Yes the humans were tracking me, and I am a creature of habit. However one of the reasons I kept going there was exactly because of that type of service.
I think it's worse than that, I think they are monitoring EVERYONE, all the time, and storing it away, what they need is a reason to go look into your history specifically. So if you get a wrong number call from a suspected nut job you get flagged and a weighting mechanism increases your "Person of Interest" score. If it gets too high for whatever reason the system notifies a blood sack and they take a more personal interest, or after review you get unflagged and the weighting mechanism goes back to a lower level of weighting. I know people who work in banks dealing with big data, working to stop transfers to drug dealers and terrorist groups etc. and thats how they do it. I can't see the NSA having anything as simple as "oh that was suspicious, I'm watching you now, don't know what you did yesterday, but I will from now on!"
And then had to convert the pile of VBA crap into a working website.
These implementations rely on the shit and security nightmare that is VBA
What security? Security would just frustrate the business people cranking out the VBA to speed up their daily jobs. The real danger here is not VBA per se, it's the corporate mentality that the company uses Macro enabled documents so they keep giving it permission to run, even when they don't recognize the document.
You've heard of string resource files for localization right? Looks like you (or your wife) came across one of those, and if you have ever worked on a project which does use localization you will know that a lot of crap gets left behind in the resource files and not used (anymore). It would be "dead code" but it's more like a "dead resource", happens all the time.
You're an idiot.
Maybe they actually do need to get into the phone, if so why did the FBI reset his account password so that even Apple could not get into his account and unlock his phone? They are using this specific case ("Oh my god Terrorrists!") because they are betting on public sentiment and morons like you to set a legal precedent that they can then use to beat the shit out of anyone who does not decrypt data for them. If you think the FBI are doing this for any other reason then you obviously ate wall candy as a baby (ie. lead paint, since I doubt you would figure it out).
There are already several companies offering trained security personnel to protect ships when they venture into dodgy waters. The difference is that these are trained people with firearms, they are not handing out automatic weapons to the crew. A lot of them are ex-military or ex-policemen with extra training for naval duty.
Some of the companies after a quick google...
Sea Marshals
ESC Global Security
ESS&SA
McRoberts Protective Agency
Agema-Services
Rokada
Seagull Maritime Security
International Maritime Security (IMS)
Atlas
Britannia
Solace Global
Port2Port Maritime Security
Triaena Maritime Security
MAST
ESPADA
ALGIZ Security
Have they fixed the nausea issue yet, I know that's less of an issue than the older ones were, but apparently long term use still makes you start feeling a bit green around the gills. Until they fix that 100% it will always be a bit of a gimmick, once you can wear it comfortably for long durations you can kiss the old monitor(s) goodbye.
But I agree with the OP, Grandpa may still use windows, hell mom and dad might still use windows, but they are basically hammering nails into their coffin. It may take a while, but as Linux gets more and more user friendly (and free) in a generation or two Windows will be dead. The one thing still heavily in favour of windows for teenagers is the gaming, but with Steam leading the charge to get games cross platform how long is that going to last? If I was Microsoft I would have done my utmost best to make the "final" version of windows as attractive as possible, not embed it with spyware and crap. I mean seriously, how much money are they making on showing ads on the fucking lock screen? They should be more concerned about whether they have a lock screen to display crap on then actually displaying stuff on it. Look how much kicking and screaming it took for them to bring back the start button, my wife HATED Windows 8, and dislikes 10 because it reminds her of 8, it's just a matter of time before I find her formatting and putting 7 back on. I think the bean counters at MS have way to much say in what their products do, they should be muzzled before they run the company into the ground, all for the sake of short term profit and short sightedness about the long term damage they are doing to the company. But hey, they will get their bonus this year, and when the company is fucked they will move on.
I fail to see the point in wireless keyboard/mouse for a standard PC. I mean how fucking far do you move your keyboard in a day? A wireless mouse I might bother with on a laptop. I went the whole cordless route at one point (and I buy my keyboard/mouse in pairs, one for work and one for home) and all it meant was stealing batteries at 3 in the morning from other devices so I can finish a raid. As soon as one of the keyboards wore out (alt key on work keyboard) I replaced the lot with corded ones.
When I know that a website is loading slowly because of some overloaded third party advertising website is trying to load it's banner ad I close it down and go look elsewhere. Like you said, chances are it's just a copy paste from elsewhere anyway.
That comes with hefty yearly maintenance fees and service contracts. I have never worked on hospital software, but I do work on logistics systems and some of them are so old that they can't get them running on Windows 7 (yes even in compatibility mode). So they might upgrade the hardware, but they have to install Windows XP to get the software to run. Get a new version from the Vendor? Vendor's gone, retired and the company no longer exists. I am busy rewriting part of the system that was home grown because they "lost" the source code about 10 years ago and the system limped on for that long before they decided to spend money rewriting it so they could add functionality and get it working on up to date operating systems. The deciding factor to keep it in house, was that it would be more expensive to buy off the shelf, plus they would have to change the way the business works to fit the off the shelf software (retrain people etc.)
It's not as simple as that, the following was from a fellow slashdotter on a different post, I sent a copy to friends because I found it so interesting. Unfortuanately I did not keep a copy of WHO he was, my apologies to him for posting it again without attributing it to him.
You mistake an iPhone's unlock code with the iPhone's encryption key. the iPhones do typically use a 4-6 digit pin as an unlock code. The user also has the ability to create a full alphanumeric password for the unlock code as well. However, that is simply the code that's used to unlock the actual full encryption key that is stored within dedicated crypto hardware. Apple uses a dedicated chip to store and process the encryption. They call this the Secure Enclave.
Within the secure enclave itself, you have the device's Unique ID (UID) . The only place this information is stored is within the secure enclave. It can't be queried or accessed from any other part of the device or OS. Within the phone's processor you also have the device's Group ID (GID). Both of these numbers combine to create 1/2 of the encryption key. These are numbers that are burned into the silicon, aren't accessible outside of the chips themselves, and aren't recorded anywhere once they are burned into the silicon. Apple doesn't keep records of these numbers.
The second half of the encryption key is generated using a random number generator chip. It creates entropy using the various sensors on the iPhone itself during boot (microphone, accelerometer, camera, etc.) This part of the key is stored within the Secure Enclave as well, where it resides and doesn't leave. This storage is tamper resistant and can't be accessed outside of the encryption system. Even if the UID and GID components of the encryption key are compromised on Apple's end, it still wouldn't be possible to decrypt an iPhone since that's only 1/2 of the key.
The secure enclave is part of an overall hardware based encryption system that completely encrypts all of the user storage. It will only decrypt content if provided with the unlock code. The unlock code itself is entangled with the device's UDID so that all attempts to decrypt the storage must be done on the device itself. You must have all 3 pieces present: The specific secure enclave, the specific processor of the iphone, and the flash memory that you are trying to decrypt. Basically, you can't pull the device apart to attack an individual piece of the encryption or get around parts of the encryption storage process. You can't run the decryption or brute forcing of the unlock code in an emulator. It requires that the actual hardware components are present and can only be done on the specific device itself.
The secure enclave also has hardware enforced time-delays and key-destruction. You can set the phone to wipe the encryption key (and all the data contained on the phone) after 10 failed attempts. If you have the data-wipe turned on, then the secure enclave will nuke the key that it stores after 10 failed attempts. Whether the device-wipe feature is turned on or not, the secure enclave still has a hardware-enforced delay between attempts at entering the code: Attempts 1-4 have no delay, Attempt 5 has a delay of 1 minute. Attempt 6 has a delay of 5 minutes. Attempts 7 and 8 have a delay of 15 minutes. And attempts 9 or more have a delay of 1 hour. This delay is enforced by the secure enclave and can not be bypassed, even if you completely replace the operating system of the phone itself. If you have a 6-digit pin code, it will take, on average, nearly 6 years to brute-force the code. 4-digit pin will take almost a year. if you have an alpha-numeric password the amount of time required could extend beyond the heat-death of the universe. Key destruction is turned on by default.
Even if you pull the flash storage out of the device, image it, and attempt to get around key destruction that way it won't be successful. The key isn't stored on the flash itself, it's only stored within the secure enclave itself which you can't remove the storage from.
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Agreed, bought a super shiny Sony TV to go with the super shiny psx and we used to watch youtube vids on it. A couple months later that stopped working and now we are back to using the Rpi for youtube. No updates available, it just stopped working (for whatever reason). Eventually I gave it away and bought a super shiny monitor so that I don't have to pay for a TV license (where I live you have to pay for a TV license if you own a TV, even if you don't watch any of the drivel on public broadcast)
Any and all updates or deletes I ALWAYS do a BEGIN TRANSACTION and ROLLBACK, even when on the dev box. I have had one or two "oh fuck" moments before and this helps. If I am really paranoid or the data is difficult to restore / recover I do a full backup first.
So rent a dedicated line between them, there is no reason to plonk everything onto the internet other than bean counters cutting costs. I can't even begin to count the number of collossal fuckups caused because bean counters made decisions instead of people more qualified on the technical merits of doing xyz because they want to make 0.0001% more of a profit. But hey, I suppose their bonuses are at stake, so fuck everything else.
I disagree, I used to frequent an Italian restuarant (sadly it closed) and by the time I got to my prefferred table either a beer was waiting, or on it's way. Yes the humans were tracking me, and I am a creature of habit. However one of the reasons I kept going there was exactly because of that type of service.
Last night my friend asked to use a USB port to charge his cigarette, but I was using it to charge my book. The future is stupid. http://qdb.us/310406
And as fucked up as this might sound, I would LOVE to get a look in that database!
I think it's worse than that, I think they are monitoring EVERYONE, all the time, and storing it away, what they need is a reason to go look into your history specifically. So if you get a wrong number call from a suspected nut job you get flagged and a weighting mechanism increases your "Person of Interest" score. If it gets too high for whatever reason the system notifies a blood sack and they take a more personal interest, or after review you get unflagged and the weighting mechanism goes back to a lower level of weighting. I know people who work in banks dealing with big data, working to stop transfers to drug dealers and terrorist groups etc. and thats how they do it. I can't see the NSA having anything as simple as "oh that was suspicious, I'm watching you now, don't know what you did yesterday, but I will from now on!"
Then you use Windows :-)
LordWabbit Ducks and runs for cover
What security? Security would just frustrate the business people cranking out the VBA to speed up their daily jobs. The real danger here is not VBA per se, it's the corporate mentality that the company uses Macro enabled documents so they keep giving it permission to run, even when they don't recognize the document.
You've heard of string resource files for localization right? Looks like you (or your wife) came across one of those, and if you have ever worked on a project which does use localization you will know that a lot of crap gets left behind in the resource files and not used (anymore). It would be "dead code" but it's more like a "dead resource", happens all the time.
You're an idiot.
Maybe they actually do need to get into the phone, if so why did the FBI reset his account password so that even Apple could not get into his account and unlock his phone? They are using this specific case ("Oh my god Terrorrists!") because they are betting on public sentiment and morons like you to set a legal precedent that they can then use to beat the shit out of anyone who does not decrypt data for them. If you think the FBI are doing this for any other reason then you obviously ate wall candy as a baby (ie. lead paint, since I doubt you would figure it out).
There are already several companies offering trained security personnel to protect ships when they venture into dodgy waters. The difference is that these are trained people with firearms, they are not handing out automatic weapons to the crew. A lot of them are ex-military or ex-policemen with extra training for naval duty.
Some of the companies after a quick google...
Sea Marshals
ESC Global Security
ESS&SA
McRoberts Protective Agency
Agema-Services
Rokada
Seagull Maritime Security
International Maritime Security (IMS)
Atlas
Britannia
Solace Global
Port2Port Maritime Security
Triaena Maritime Security
MAST
ESPADA
ALGIZ Security
The list goes on.
But think about all the children!
My Firefox pdf reader is the most secure, since every time I even try open a pdf in Firefox it freezes, so I don't bother opening pdf's in Firefox.
Have they fixed the nausea issue yet, I know that's less of an issue than the older ones were, but apparently long term use still makes you start feeling a bit green around the gills. Until they fix that 100% it will always be a bit of a gimmick, once you can wear it comfortably for long durations you can kiss the old monitor(s) goodbye.
But I agree with the OP, Grandpa may still use windows, hell mom and dad might still use windows, but they are basically hammering nails into their coffin. It may take a while, but as Linux gets more and more user friendly (and free) in a generation or two Windows will be dead. The one thing still heavily in favour of windows for teenagers is the gaming, but with Steam leading the charge to get games cross platform how long is that going to last? If I was Microsoft I would have done my utmost best to make the "final" version of windows as attractive as possible, not embed it with spyware and crap. I mean seriously, how much money are they making on showing ads on the fucking lock screen? They should be more concerned about whether they have a lock screen to display crap on then actually displaying stuff on it. Look how much kicking and screaming it took for them to bring back the start button, my wife HATED Windows 8, and dislikes 10 because it reminds her of 8, it's just a matter of time before I find her formatting and putting 7 back on. I think the bean counters at MS have way to much say in what their products do, they should be muzzled before they run the company into the ground, all for the sake of short term profit and short sightedness about the long term damage they are doing to the company. But hey, they will get their bonus this year, and when the company is fucked they will move on.
I fail to see the point in wireless keyboard/mouse for a standard PC. I mean how fucking far do you move your keyboard in a day? A wireless mouse I might bother with on a laptop. I went the whole cordless route at one point (and I buy my keyboard/mouse in pairs, one for work and one for home) and all it meant was stealing batteries at 3 in the morning from other devices so I can finish a raid. As soon as one of the keyboards wore out (alt key on work keyboard) I replaced the lot with corded ones.
When I know that a website is loading slowly because of some overloaded third party advertising website is trying to load it's banner ad I close it down and go look elsewhere. Like you said, chances are it's just a copy paste from elsewhere anyway.
Dude, this is /. you must be new here.
And I think the going postal thing is more about the tedium and crap pay than stress.
"John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute."
That comes with hefty yearly maintenance fees and service contracts. I have never worked on hospital software, but I do work on logistics systems and some of them are so old that they can't get them running on Windows 7 (yes even in compatibility mode). So they might upgrade the hardware, but they have to install Windows XP to get the software to run. Get a new version from the Vendor? Vendor's gone, retired and the company no longer exists. I am busy rewriting part of the system that was home grown because they "lost" the source code about 10 years ago and the system limped on for that long before they decided to spend money rewriting it so they could add functionality and get it working on up to date operating systems. The deciding factor to keep it in house, was that it would be more expensive to buy off the shelf, plus they would have to change the way the business works to fit the off the shelf software (retrain people etc.)
People who want stuff for free. It's amazing what loops people will jump through to save themselves a couple bucks.
No humans ARE fundamentally selfish, that's why the planet is all fucked up.