I ocaistionally get some sort of marketing message on my cell, It appears a new voice message even if my cell was on and could have rung. I don't know what it is because it's in spanish and I don't speak spanish. I'll be really mad if it's costing me to get these.
My brothers have had drone on recorded messages, they even hung up only to find that if they picked up the phone too soon the recorded message was still droneing on... makes you wonder what you would do if you had a need for emergency services and your phone line was jammed up by some droneing recording.
Actually, the fridge knowing when the milk expires (But it may still be good if it was treated correctly) or the TV dinner setting the microwave (once, huh..) or the clothes telling the washer and dryer what to do (Hey washer inhibit the bleach please!)
The walmart near me makes an ocaisonal announcement "Security Camera in department (some number)" or somthing to the effect of "Please record what's going on in department (number). Since the general public has no idea which department is which number, they could be recording in any department (or none if It's just a "Big Brother" ploy).
Underwood or Underhill or somthing like that. A real 1800's sorta guy. Norm Abrams should open "wood clubs" all around, outfited with all the best tools that members can use.
I am on a dial-up, 20 min of video means 60 min of download.
Point to you- deleteing files. Point to you- Backups usless against spyware.
Ok, I see how this will work. My legitimate program will call the OS and say "Please Ask the user which file to open and open the file the user says and let me have a 'connection' to it," Rather than "Please open file/etc/passwd" fopen will no longer be available.
Hmm, Now is there anyplace where a program would open some standard file all the time without having to ask the user to find it? hmmm. There will probably be a separate call for "please open a scratch file". How abouit opening spell check dictionaries?
Well, I am not going to download and run something, but I did go look at the abstract... but we can still discuss it..
A virus is using my own rights with my own files, in effect it's me running a program to delete or copy or encrypt my own files.. Even if I am running under the least ammount of authority, I still have to be able to work with my own files otherwise the computer becomes just an electronic book, a reference to data someone else has given me.
May I suggest a way to protect my files even from me... Versioning, Every time a file is opened for write or append it is acutally copied. The OS should protect the n-1 recent copy so nothing, not even the system is allowed to over-write or erase it. n-2 is unprotected again and n is the current working copy. If a virus tries to delete or scramble a file it can only effect a new copy it makes itself....
Wait even then a virus can cause havoc..
1) Erase all older versions leaves Vn and Vn-1(good protected) 2) Update Vn with blank Leaves Vn(blank) Vn-1(good-protected) Vn-2(old) 3) Upatee Vn with blank again Vn(blank) Vn-1(blank-protected) Vn-2(good) Vn-3
repeat once more to delete and leave only blank files (or encrypted files)
Nope - I guess as long as I can write to my own files a virus can damage them. Although now it's twice or three times the work to destroy a user's own files.
Yup, or filling 1 3x and leaving out two. Tylenol would still not suffer much.. but if it were my diabetes medicine... uh, why am I getting sleepy, check blood sugar 42!!!//faint// (for those who don't know the good range is 70-120)
In this case the user's documents folder is the one mangled. No matter how strong the security on a system do you want the system to stand between you and your files?
>exec wordproc file=myresume --sys: Allow "wordproc" to open "myresume" for read? y/n : y --sys: Are you SURE? y/n : y (word processing session ensues) (user Saves) --sys: Allow "wordproc" to open "myresume" for write y/n : y --sys: Are you SURE? y/n : y --sys: Do you know the old copy version will be DESTROYED? y/n : y
I know, perhaps we need versioning like VMS used to have, then any file opend for write or append is copied to a new version then writed or appended to. The OS write protects the old version..
If the terrorist Mohamed Al-blowyouup hacks into the tylenol factory computer and sets the process to add twice as much of the active ingreedient, the workers will begin to notice that they are running out of the stuff faster than before, using more than they should, Al-blowyouup could instead put less in - bad consequences tylenol stops working so well (and workers think hmm tank is still full?). Al-blowyouup has no choice to add somthing like rat-poison to the mix, at least by remote control.
This of course is assuming the control and mixing computer is even attached to the internet.
As the elevator car travels up or down (assuming it makes complete journeys and is unlike a building elevator that goes from floor to floor in both directions) why not have the top of the car scrape off the old outer layer and the bottom of the car apply a new fresh outer layer (when acending, These functions to be reversed when the car is decending) Good engineering would normally have the cable oversized anyway.
Hell, I still miss mine (Viper tape drive, RSX/11, RSTS/E 10, BASIC Plus2, 512MB EDSI drive).
It would also be very good if, as a part of your exibit you had for sale a CDROM with various emulators. You might have to get permission for a for sale CD..
If one of those entities wants to gain root access to your machine after it is confiscated, they would probably just boot it single user and change the root password.
It's still the case that someone else holds your document. That they can peek any time they want to. That they can show your document to anyone else they want to. They can loose your document, they can just prevent you from using your own document.
Oh you might have laws and agreements that are supposed to constrain them but employees can act badly. Possestion is 9/10ths of the law.
In most US universities "return it" means selling it back to the bookstore for a dime on the dollar so they can sell it again as a used book. (100 new, You get 10 back for it, they sell it for 80)
I heard that there was a professor that had written their own textbook, it had a coupon in the back that was good for a one letter grade upgrade... buy the book new and turn in the coupon - turn that B into an A, or that D into a C.
And of course since the prof was the author, he got a cut of every new sale.
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I ocaistionally get some sort of marketing message on my cell, It appears a new voice message even if my cell was on and could have rung. I don't know what it is because it's in spanish and I don't speak spanish. I'll be really mad if it's costing me to get these.
My brothers have had drone on recorded messages, they even hung up only to find that if they picked up the phone too soon the recorded message was still droneing on... makes you wonder what you would do if you had a need for emergency services and your phone line was jammed up by some droneing recording.
isn't that "lasers attached to their --freakin-- heads" ? :^)
it's a joke....
Actually, the fridge knowing when the milk expires (But it may still be good if it was treated
correctly) or the TV dinner setting the microwave (once, huh..) or the clothes telling the washer
and dryer what to do (Hey washer inhibit the bleach please!)
could be cool.
What? FROOTLOOPS again!??!?
rfid, so what.
The walmart near me makes an ocaisonal announcement "Security Camera in department (some number)" or somthing to the effect of "Please record what's going on in department (number). Since the general public has no idea which department is which number, they could be recording in any department (or none if It's just a "Big Brother" ploy).
Underwood or Underhill or somthing like that. A real 1800's sorta guy.
Norm Abrams should open "wood clubs" all around, outfited with all the best
tools that members can use.
I miss it from my VAX days.
I am on a dial-up, 20 min of video means 60 min of download.
/etc/passwd" fopen will no longer be available.
Point to you- deleteing files.
Point to you- Backups usless against spyware.
Ok, I see how this will work. My legitimate program will call the OS and say "Please Ask the user which file to open and open the file the user says and let me have a 'connection' to it," Rather than "Please open file
Hmm, Now is there anyplace where a program would open some standard file all the time without having to ask the user to find it? hmmm. There will probably be a separate call for "please open a scratch file". How abouit opening spell check dictionaries?
Not to mention using minutes just to add names to your phonebook or choose a new ringtone. Bleah!
Well, I am not going to download and run something, but I did go look at the abstract... but we can still discuss it..
A virus is using my own rights with my own files, in effect it's me running a program to delete or copy or encrypt my own files.. Even if I am running under the least ammount of authority, I still have to be able to work with my own files otherwise the computer becomes just an electronic book, a reference to data someone else has given me.
May I suggest a way to protect my files even from me... Versioning, Every time a file is opened for write or append it is acutally copied. The OS should protect the n-1 recent copy so nothing, not even the system is allowed to over-write or erase it. n-2 is unprotected again and n is the current working copy. If a virus tries to delete or scramble a file it can only effect a new copy it makes itself....
Wait even then a virus can cause havoc..
1) Erase all older versions leaves Vn and Vn-1(good protected)
2) Update Vn with blank Leaves Vn(blank) Vn-1(good-protected) Vn-2(old)
3) Upatee Vn with blank again Vn(blank) Vn-1(blank-protected) Vn-2(good) Vn-3
repeat once more to delete and leave only blank files (or encrypted files)
Nope - I guess as long as I can write to my own files a virus can damage them.
Although now it's twice or three times the work to destroy a user's own files.
Do backups.
I may have missed that, I thought the cable would be a solid bar of super-strong-nano-carbon-stuff(tm) and so all the damage would be on the outside.
perhaps not....
Yup, or filling 1 3x and leaving out two. Tylenol would still not suffer much.. but if it were my diabetes medicine... uh, why am I getting sleepy, check blood sugar 42!!! //faint// (for those who don't know the good range is 70-120)
In this case the user's documents folder is the one mangled. No matter how strong the security on a system do you want the system to stand between you and your files?
>exec wordproc file=myresume
--sys: Allow "wordproc" to open "myresume" for read? y/n : y
--sys: Are you SURE? y/n : y
(word processing session ensues)
(user Saves)
--sys: Allow "wordproc" to open "myresume" for write y/n : y
--sys: Are you SURE? y/n : y
--sys: Do you know the old copy version will be DESTROYED? y/n : y
I know, perhaps we need versioning like VMS used to have, then any file opend
for write or append is copied to a new version then writed or appended to. The OS write protects the old version..
And not that much stronger too..
If the terrorist Mohamed Al-blowyouup hacks into the tylenol factory computer and sets the process to add twice as much of the active ingreedient, the workers will begin to notice that they are running out of the stuff faster than before, using more than they should, Al-blowyouup could instead put less in - bad consequences tylenol stops working so well (and workers think hmm tank is still full?).
Al-blowyouup has no choice to add somthing like rat-poison to the mix, at least by remote control.
This of course is assuming the control and mixing computer is even attached to the internet.
As the elevator car travels up or down (assuming it makes complete journeys and is unlike a building elevator that goes from floor to floor in both directions) why not have the top of the car scrape off the old outer layer and the bottom of the
car apply a new fresh outer layer (when acending, These functions to be reversed when the car is decending) Good engineering would normally have the cable oversized anyway.
What other company sells a windows-compatible OS that you don't have a right to copy for any number of other machines?
(No not Apple, pretty close but they don't run on x86 machines... uh...)
Hell, I still miss mine (Viper tape drive, RSX/11, RSTS/E 10, BASIC Plus2, 512MB EDSI drive).
It would also be very good if, as a part of your exibit you had for sale a CDROM with various emulators. You might have to get permission for a for sale CD..
If you miss PDP11 with RSTS/E.. try simh.
Naw, Just make an alias of your Applications folder down in the dock, that way whenever you install somthing new it'l automagically be there.
If one of those entities wants to gain root access to your machine after it is confiscated, they would probably just boot it single user and change the root password.
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It's still the case that someone else holds your document. That they can peek any time they want to. That they can show your document to anyone else they want to. They can loose your document, they can just prevent you from using your own document.
Oh you might have laws and agreements that are supposed to constrain them but employees can act badly. Possestion is 9/10ths of the law.
In most US universities "return it" means selling it back to the bookstore for a dime on the dollar so they can sell it again as a used book. (100 new, You get 10 back for it, they sell it for 80)
I heard that there was a professor that had written their own textbook, it had a coupon in the back that was good for a one letter grade upgrade... buy the book new and turn in the coupon - turn that B into an A, or that D into a C.
And of course since the prof was the author, he got a cut of every new sale.
Ah, They *were* kabuki klingons!