I think this is great for scratch pads but unless there's also a way to make the print last longer the applications would be limited.
"If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days. That process can be accelerated by heating the paper to 120 C (250 F) for 10 minutes."
Slowest Etch-a-Sketch ever?
er...am i alone in thinking
look: if it means fast, then i'm good with it. we haven't replaced the shuttle yet and philosophically, we need our own menas of getting our people into space rather than relying on a nation with whom relations are potentially quite variable.
Or, how about not requiring encryption in the first place? All introducing a countermeasure does is flag you as a possible person of interest. Far better to nip it in the bud where possible.
this is absolutely the wrong question to ask, though: have you never heard of innocent people being convicted of serious crimes?
mistakes happen all the time. when governments make mistakes, the consequences are a whole lot more severe than when an individual does, acting on his or her own.
someone seriously arguing--especially in this day & age--that having nothing to hide means the US government should be able to see anything & everything a US citizen reads/writes online betrays a fantastically naive view of governments and how they use power, irrespective of his or her particular political ideology.
this is normal in the case of data breaches. usually, an investigation is done to determine scope/size of privacy breach. and remember the sony "what outage" story from earlier this year.
i'm mystified as to why the contractor in question isn't being named. that is an absolutely inexcusable lapse in judgment.
i really don't think that the the heads that roll will be confined to IT. in that kind of environment, someone puts together a request that goes to IT, right? it won't be IT that approved the webcam capability on the hardware.
that the canadians generally use british english rather than american english was, i thought, fairly well understood. there's a plethora of (in american english) unnecessary "u"s (e.g., colour vs. color).
i don't believe the issue is constitutionality so much as fear of the precedent this would create from the crummy logic being employed here.
irrespective of whether you feel that prisoners should be miserable in prison, the idea that any kind of hierarchical structure, no matter how innocuous, could theoretically lead to gang activity--which relationship the state is unable to demonstrate, incidentally--is extraordinarily broad. the volokh blog specifically skewers that thinking: should pick-up football games be banned b/c one inmate is the QB and he provides instruction to the other players of his team? couldn't that hierarchhical structure also theoretically lead to gang activity under the state's logic?
i used to work in a business where china-based production is very common--apparel. sure, the china-side manufacturers made the products--but remember that these guys are filling orders placed by US-side customers. if the US-side customer isn't inspecting the material composition at an independent, third party lab, that's their failure for accepting it.
there are 2 reasons why a customer should always confirm the material composition in this way: 1) to make sure the manufacturer isn't substituting substandard (read: less expensive) components, and 2) to prevent legal liability.
this clearly wasn't done in several cases, and by some fairly big customers: wal-mart and disney. it's a fairly elementary part of any outsourced production.
so however this happened, consumer ire should land squarely on the customers. at the end of the day, they're the ones who paid to import those goods. being angry at the chinese manufacturers is rather a lot like being ticked off at the mob enforcer, not the capo.
you know, while it's certainly self-serving, it's also useful to know because with evidence that at least one sysadmin is going on the offensive and has gotten results, the idea may gain mindshare elsewhere. to me, that prospect ameliorates my misgivings re: the self-serving part of the announcement.
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I think this is great for scratch pads but unless there's also a way to make the print last longer the applications would be limited. "If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days. That process can be accelerated by heating the paper to 120 C (250 F) for 10 minutes." Slowest Etch-a-Sketch ever?
i don't know boo about pen-testing, but are these guys tagging their work in some way, or is something a lot more sophisticated taking place?
thank you, because here i was thinking the naming of the OMG particle related to sex!
ed
correction: not recently: my bad.
ed
there was an article recently talking about the importance of praising children for effort rather than results:
NYT: link.
ed
so the wrong point: if you have nothing to hide why not just give everyone access to your account?
ed
i for one welcome our botnet overlord masters?
ed
this does beg the question: if they're so popular without any FDA approval already, does this have any meaningful impact? i somehow doubt it.
ed
er...am i alone in thinking
look: if it means fast, then i'm good with it. we haven't replaced the shuttle yet and philosophically, we need our own menas of getting our people into space rather than relying on a nation with whom relations are potentially quite variable.
ed
wish i had mod points, this is an excellent & important observation.
Or, how about not requiring encryption in the first place? All introducing a countermeasure does is flag you as a possible person of interest. Far better to nip it in the bud where possible.
this is absolutely the wrong question to ask, though: have you never heard of innocent people being convicted of serious crimes? mistakes happen all the time. when governments make mistakes, the consequences are a whole lot more severe than when an individual does, acting on his or her own. someone seriously arguing--especially in this day & age--that having nothing to hide means the US government should be able to see anything & everything a US citizen reads/writes online betrays a fantastically naive view of governments and how they use power, irrespective of his or her particular political ideology.
this is normal in the case of data breaches. usually, an investigation is done to determine scope/size of privacy breach. and remember the sony "what outage" story from earlier this year.
i'm mystified as to why the contractor in question isn't being named. that is an absolutely inexcusable lapse in judgment.
apparently, you should no longer shop while browsing p40n!
i really don't think that the the heads that roll will be confined to IT. in that kind of environment, someone puts together a request that goes to IT, right? it won't be IT that approved the webcam capability on the hardware.
ed
thank you, kyrio, for the opera love. i use opera in preference to everything else b/c it opens faster than everything else.
ed
because the plight of the american worker is the only metric by which one should evaluate anything?
that the canadians generally use british english rather than american english was, i thought, fairly well understood. there's a plethora of (in american english) unnecessary "u"s (e.g., colour vs. color).
while philosophically i agree with this, i believe the "objective reporting" for which you are yearning has gone the way of the dodo.
ed
i don't believe the issue is constitutionality so much as fear of the precedent this would create from the crummy logic being employed here.
irrespective of whether you feel that prisoners should be miserable in prison, the idea that any kind of hierarchical structure, no matter how innocuous, could theoretically lead to gang activity--which relationship the state is unable to demonstrate, incidentally--is extraordinarily broad. the volokh blog specifically skewers that thinking: should pick-up football games be banned b/c one inmate is the QB and he provides instruction to the other players of his team? couldn't that hierarchhical structure also theoretically lead to gang activity under the state's logic?
ed
hold on just a minute.
i used to work in a business where china-based production is very common--apparel. sure, the china-side manufacturers made the products--but remember that these guys are filling orders placed by US-side customers. if the US-side customer isn't inspecting the material composition at an independent, third party lab, that's their failure for accepting it.
there are 2 reasons why a customer should always confirm the material composition in this way: 1) to make sure the manufacturer isn't substituting substandard (read: less expensive) components, and 2) to prevent legal liability.
this clearly wasn't done in several cases, and by some fairly big customers: wal-mart and disney. it's a fairly elementary part of any outsourced production.
so however this happened, consumer ire should land squarely on the customers. at the end of the day, they're the ones who paid to import those goods. being angry at the chinese manufacturers is rather a lot like being ticked off at the mob enforcer, not the capo.
you know, while it's certainly self-serving, it's also useful to know because with evidence that at least one sysadmin is going on the offensive and has gotten results, the idea may gain mindshare elsewhere. to me, that prospect ameliorates my misgivings re: the self-serving part of the announcement.
strictly speaking, to be a lie, doesn't that require the speaker be aware that the statement is factually incorrect? untrue lie.
i think the parent needs upmodding. ed
don't you think that this would represent a pretty significant financial investment?