Google, but nothing else, brings up a Comcast "Activate Your Service" page about half the time. All other pages work. All Comcast customers I've tried this on, have the same thing happen.
At Sears, entering driver's license number and state is enough to pull up someone's name, address and phone number. It's done during the process of applying for a credit card through them, but one can easily enough fake the "intent to apply" part, run any old number, and void it before going for credit approval.
Except, in an off-line environment, "Administrator" is also the designated recovery agent, and has enough access to take ownership and decrypt any encrypted files on the system. Back to square 1, albeit with a little bit more effort.
I guess if they weren't serious about trying, they'd be deterred but it's still not real security. It's unbreakable in a domain, though, near as I'm aware.
Windows doesn't offer any way to "password protect" with any actual security, files and folders and so forth. That's a major part of the problem -- people want like 1 or 2 folders to be encrypted to where you actually have to authenticate to get in each time.
Windows EFS is decent crypto (I think it's 3DES on workstation, AES on server versions) but once you've authenticated your session, you're in to all the files automatically, it's only good for preventing offline reads. That's it. Privacy -- in general, not just for these situations where someone was doing something illegal -- would be greatly served (and Geek Squad wouldn't find people's private videos of themselves on vacation or whatever) if they'd just add in the feature everyone wants.
Local file access security exists only in a domain or with third-party tools like TrueCrypt.
Unless the text of the Controlled Substances Act reads something to the effect of "whites may have as much cocaine and methamphetamine as they want but those damn n*****s are to receive a mandatory 10 years for having any", the law is not filling prisons in a RACIST manner, just an unequal one.
The law is providing process equality. It's not providing equality of outcome. People get the two confused often.
There are things that have a distinct tone of racism even in modern society, but I don't think the Controlled Substances Act is one of them.
HTTPS only works for protecting against people snooping in real-time on things like wireless networks or broadcast domains; there already exist available network firewall devices which (by virtue of the fact that they can see both sides of the HTTPS setup at once) can see inside of HTTPS packets as they're flying by and analyze their content just like anything else.
Something like that isn't going to suddenly swing off course, all it'd take is a series of sensors in a ring around the station...or failing that, just to kill the satellite's downlink via radio if the event that power received by the station drops off by a certain percentage.
The failure mode, "vent with flame" that you're describing, happens because the material (Lithium) contains a huge amount of stored energy that can be released in a very short time if the case is compromised -- resulting in a high power release. Lithium is unbelievably reactive.
Radioactive water, or really most radioactive compounds, are much less reactive and thus while they may be able to deliver a decent amount of energy on a constant basis, if they vent up they'd not release a lot of power.
I had a Tritium glow ring that I carried on my keychain.
My first college's nuclear physics club had a table where they had a number of "common household items" including glowing watches, Uranium-Orange painted ceramic plates, and smoke detectors and a Geiger counter.
My Glow Ring made their meter spike up to about its midpoint, the previously most radioactive thing, a 1950s Uranium Oxide Orange ceramic plate, only came half-way up to the first dash.
I got rid of the Glow Ring shortly thereafter, since I didn't trust its shielding. (Of course, it had been carried for about 2 years with my keys on a belt loop, so what's done is done...) Was it an actual problem, or was I just being paranoid?
Their military budget is a joke when compared to ours. That's why they're able to run a surplus -- it's not being spent on defense.
Whether that's a good thing or not is a matter of opinion, but their lack of a military being the reason they can be more socialized is a matter of fact.
Doesn't the OpenMoko only work at GPRS speeds, and actually not have any integration between the "phone" part and the "Linux" part except by the command line, if at all?
Unless the phone comes out of the box with a GUI for phone and messaging, and higher speed, I'm never going to buy it at any price (no matter how customizable it is and how many different GUIs I can put onto it, if it doesn't have a stock one, I'm not interested.)
I've got an Ubuntu FF installation languishing on my hard drive in a secondary partition to XP, because I've never managed to get my 3 monitors spread across 2 ATI videocards (X800 and 9250) to work correctly.
Does this release make it any easier, at all, to make it work?
Something tells me from reading the rest of the comments that the answer is "no" but I don't know for sure.
Having read the original court filings of a great number of these cases, they tend to have about 10 plaintiffs v. the infringing party, covering everyone whose copyright was misappropriated in the same lawsuit.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm wondering if anyone around here knows.
I've been hearing for a bit that there is an Xorg rewrite coming down the pipe which will reduce or eliminate Xorg.conf and make it much, much easier for multiple monitors on multiple display devices to actually function.
Is this going to be in GG, or HH, or is it just vaporware?
I'd like a Mac laptop. I don't feel much affinity towards Windows itself anymore, except that PC-based platforms are the only ones that do what I want them to.
As soon as Apple comes up with a convertible tablet PC with handwriting recognition, and something similar to OneNote (or a OneNote 2007 for OSX port) then I am not interested. I couldn't live without that app as a student -- it's simplified my life so much compared to the days of notebooks and paper.
Whether it's a lack of musical/vocal talent or poor engineering, nearly every song I've ever heard from the Chili Peppers sounds "washed out", like I'd imagine a newspaper left to bleach out in the sun for a week would sound if it made the same type of music.
A metabolite product of the drug could form an adduct with a piece of DNA in an intestinal cell...but the DNA, and the cell it's in, would be destroyed long before they got to a testing facility.
The United States is in such trouble on the world stage due to our constant desires to impose our ideas of what "freedom", "morality", etc. mean on everyone else as if they were the only interpretations thereof.
Spamming proxies to subvert the lawful government of another sovereign nation is just another way for American influences to try and force everyone else to conform to their ideas. As altruistic as it may seem ("let's bring the uncensored Internet to people in oppressed China!"), it is equally nefarious. Not to mention, only a small minority of Chinese feel oppressed and need to use such proxies anyway.
It is my stated intention, here for the public record, to remove myself from the boundaries of the United States before this 2013 deadline comes about. I would rather die in a terrorist attack than give up my liberties for government monitoring and surveillance, and I am willing to move myself to a location where such a choice is meaningful.
No, since it's probably both in the terms you agree to when you sign up, it does take you to the same Internet, and even most of us on here recognize that 90+% of BitTorrent traffic is somewhere between marginally and completely illegal in nature, what with the distribution and duplication of copyrighted content without a license to do so.
I am in favor of throttling BitTorrent or banning it entirely -- I've been on shared Internet connections where BitTorrent was technically and morally equated with "free content as much as you can download 24/7" and where, despite owning the router, the fact that my roommates had physical access meant they'd reset the router to its defaults and go crazy all the time. I hate it.
Slashdot Mirror
Google, but nothing else, brings up a Comcast "Activate Your Service" page about half the time. All other pages work. All Comcast customers I've tried this on, have the same thing happen.
At Sears, entering driver's license number and state is enough to pull up someone's name, address and phone number. It's done during the process of applying for a credit card through them, but one can easily enough fake the "intent to apply" part, run any old number, and void it before going for credit approval.
Would Joe Banker, or your grandmother, know that?
*that* is the real issue here -- there isn't a built-in hard security feature in the system.
Except, in an off-line environment, "Administrator" is also the designated recovery agent, and has enough access to take ownership and decrypt any encrypted files on the system. Back to square 1, albeit with a little bit more effort.
I guess if they weren't serious about trying, they'd be deterred but it's still not real security. It's unbreakable in a domain, though, near as I'm aware.
Windows doesn't offer any way to "password protect" with any actual security, files and folders and so forth. That's a major part of the problem -- people want like 1 or 2 folders to be encrypted to where you actually have to authenticate to get in each time.
Windows EFS is decent crypto (I think it's 3DES on workstation, AES on server versions) but once you've authenticated your session, you're in to all the files automatically, it's only good for preventing offline reads. That's it. Privacy -- in general, not just for these situations where someone was doing something illegal -- would be greatly served (and Geek Squad wouldn't find people's private videos of themselves on vacation or whatever) if they'd just add in the feature everyone wants.
Local file access security exists only in a domain or with third-party tools like TrueCrypt.
Unless the text of the Controlled Substances Act reads something to the effect of "whites may have as much cocaine and methamphetamine as they want but those damn n*****s are to receive a mandatory 10 years for having any", the law is not filling prisons in a RACIST manner, just an unequal one.
The law is providing process equality. It's not providing equality of outcome. People get the two confused often.
There are things that have a distinct tone of racism even in modern society, but I don't think the Controlled Substances Act is one of them.
Facebook > Privacy > External Web Sites
Any site that has attempted to send something to your profile via the Beacon can be revoked and the stories deleted.
I said the same thing in the last OLPC article discussion and got called a racist for some reason.
HTTPS only works for protecting against people snooping in real-time on things like wireless networks or broadcast domains; there already exist available network firewall devices which (by virtue of the fact that they can see both sides of the HTTPS setup at once) can see inside of HTTPS packets as they're flying by and analyze their content just like anything else.
I bet the NSA can afford a couple of those.
Something like that isn't going to suddenly swing off course, all it'd take is a series of sensors in a ring around the station...or failing that, just to kill the satellite's downlink via radio if the event that power received by the station drops off by a certain percentage.
The failure mode, "vent with flame" that you're describing, happens because the material (Lithium) contains a huge amount of stored energy that can be released in a very short time if the case is compromised -- resulting in a high power release. Lithium is unbelievably reactive.
Radioactive water, or really most radioactive compounds, are much less reactive and thus while they may be able to deliver a decent amount of energy on a constant basis, if they vent up they'd not release a lot of power.
I had a Tritium glow ring that I carried on my keychain.
My first college's nuclear physics club had a table where they had a number of "common household items" including glowing watches, Uranium-Orange painted ceramic plates, and smoke detectors and a Geiger counter.
My Glow Ring made their meter spike up to about its midpoint, the previously most radioactive thing, a 1950s Uranium Oxide Orange ceramic plate, only came half-way up to the first dash.
I got rid of the Glow Ring shortly thereafter, since I didn't trust its shielding. (Of course, it had been carried for about 2 years with my keys on a belt loop, so what's done is done...) Was it an actual problem, or was I just being paranoid?
Their military budget is a joke when compared to ours. That's why they're able to run a surplus -- it's not being spent on defense.
Whether that's a good thing or not is a matter of opinion, but their lack of a military being the reason they can be more socialized is a matter of fact.
Doesn't the OpenMoko only work at GPRS speeds, and actually not have any integration between the "phone" part and the "Linux" part except by the command line, if at all?
Unless the phone comes out of the box with a GUI for phone and messaging, and higher speed, I'm never going to buy it at any price (no matter how customizable it is and how many different GUIs I can put onto it, if it doesn't have a stock one, I'm not interested.)
I've got an Ubuntu FF installation languishing on my hard drive in a secondary partition to XP, because I've never managed to get my 3 monitors spread across 2 ATI videocards (X800 and 9250) to work correctly.
Does this release make it any easier, at all, to make it work?
Something tells me from reading the rest of the comments that the answer is "no" but I don't know for sure.
Having read the original court filings of a great number of these cases, they tend to have about 10 plaintiffs v. the infringing party, covering everyone whose copyright was misappropriated in the same lawsuit.
They bring it as a group action.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm wondering if anyone around here knows.
I've been hearing for a bit that there is an Xorg rewrite coming down the pipe which will reduce or eliminate Xorg.conf and make it much, much easier for multiple monitors on multiple display devices to actually function.
Is this going to be in GG, or HH, or is it just vaporware?
I'd like a Mac laptop. I don't feel much affinity towards Windows itself anymore, except that PC-based platforms are the only ones that do what I want them to.
As soon as Apple comes up with a convertible tablet PC with handwriting recognition, and something similar to OneNote (or a OneNote 2007 for OSX port) then I am not interested. I couldn't live without that app as a student -- it's simplified my life so much compared to the days of notebooks and paper.
Whether it's a lack of musical/vocal talent or poor engineering, nearly every song I've ever heard from the Chili Peppers sounds "washed out", like I'd imagine a newspaper left to bleach out in the sun for a week would sound if it made the same type of music.
A metabolite product of the drug could form an adduct with a piece of DNA in an intestinal cell...but the DNA, and the cell it's in, would be destroyed long before they got to a testing facility.
The United States is in such trouble on the world stage due to our constant desires to impose our ideas of what "freedom", "morality", etc. mean on everyone else as if they were the only interpretations thereof.
Spamming proxies to subvert the lawful government of another sovereign nation is just another way for American influences to try and force everyone else to conform to their ideas. As altruistic as it may seem ("let's bring the uncensored Internet to people in oppressed China!"), it is equally nefarious. Not to mention, only a small minority of Chinese feel oppressed and need to use such proxies anyway.
It is my stated intention, here for the public record, to remove myself from the boundaries of the United States before this 2013 deadline comes about. I would rather die in a terrorist attack than give up my liberties for government monitoring and surveillance, and I am willing to move myself to a location where such a choice is meaningful.
Habeas corupus? But this is a time of war!
No, since it's probably both in the terms you agree to when you sign up, it does take you to the same Internet, and even most of us on here recognize that 90+% of BitTorrent traffic is somewhere between marginally and completely illegal in nature, what with the distribution and duplication of copyrighted content without a license to do so.
I am in favor of throttling BitTorrent or banning it entirely -- I've been on shared Internet connections where BitTorrent was technically and morally equated with "free content as much as you can download 24/7" and where, despite owning the router, the fact that my roommates had physical access meant they'd reset the router to its defaults and go crazy all the time. I hate it.
"Physically disabled" -- it's harder than just reflashing to fix that, I imagine?