So tell me you have all no-brand or obscure brand items in your home?
How does the presence of name-brand products in your home depend on having seen an ad for those products? There are plenty of alternate sources of product information (review sites, in-store product information, etc.) from which you can make your buying decisions. I don't recall ever seeing/hearing any ads from Kenwood in TV, radio, or print, but I bought one of their receivers a few months ago.
it's cute and all, but the diagram makes it look like you'll need one such device, key, AND port in the back of your case for each hard drive... more hastle than it's worth if you ask me.
They probably figure that most people have only one hard drive installed. For those of us who do have more, this would be a somewhat less-than-optimal system...unless you only use one of these with the drive that has your nuclear secrets/mp3z/pr0n/whatever and keep the rest of the system on unencrypted storage (why bother encrypting your Windows install?).
also, how does this protect from hackers? if they gain access to your system while they key is plugged in, then don't they have the same access you have? if you have the key plugged in and are sharing a folder (like with p2p), then anyone who can access that folder should be able to get unencripted data correct?
This is where Abit's promotional material is a bit too much hype...if you're truly interested in keeping certain data secure, you're sure as hell not going to make the machine on which it resides network-accessible. As long as the key is in, the drive is potentially accessible to any h4x0r who manages to root your box. If it's truly important enough, you'll keep it off your LAN. To get files into and out of it, you'll use floppies or CD-RWs and sneakernet.
The Fifth Amendment only applies to testifying against yourself. If the judge issues a subpoena for the key, you're required to provide the evidence requested...
...and if turning over the key to your computer allows access to information that may incriminate you, how is that not self-incrimination?
If the police showed up while your computer was off and unused (however often that may be) and you had your key hidden, a judge could simply order you to present it.
Nope. You have to click on the article, and click on the "Secur" picture.
That link only shows up if you allow their useless Flash to play...here is the URL to the page that describes how it all goes together.
It looks like something that could be added on to any computer system...it's just a board that sits on the IDE cable between the motherboard and the drive. Plug in the key and your computer boots up; leave it unplugged and you get garbage.
(A quick check of Enova's website indicates they're using triple-DES encryption. They have a PCI IDE controller and a USB 2.0 external drive case that include their encryption hardware.)
Handguns are made for killing people. All opinions aside, that's a basic fact. Handguns are a tool designed for killing, and specifically for killing people. Arguing that they have some other practical use is just silly.
Before continuing to demonstrate your ignorance on this subject, you might wish to visit this site and enlighten yourself. At the very least, you might consider at least not automatically taking what thesemaroons say as gospel. This is also highly-recommended reading.
It's just a suggestion...take it or leave it, but I'd rather not engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. It's too much like shooting fish in a barrel...it quickly gets boring.
Useless? They've been useful at putting holes in pieces of paper at varying distances. That was the sole purpose for one of them (.22s aren't all that hot at stopping people), and while the larger of the two was purchased for defensive purposes, it's not been needed in that role yet...it's kinda like a B-36 in that regard.
Funny thing was that Copy II Plus (pre-5.0 days) would copy a lot of things, EXCEPT ITSELF. That of course didn't stop anyone from copying it with other copy programs (Lock Smith, EDD... Disk Muncher anyone?) Eventually Central Point software wised up and dropped on media copy protection altogether; only took them five revisions to realise it's a rat race that will never end.
Later versions were ProDOS-based, which also made them HD-installable. I've used Copy II Plus 7/8/9 more for moving data between DOS 3.3 and ProDOS than for breaking copy prevention (their file utilities were faster/easier than what Apple provided).
When my grandfather died in 1988, my grandmother chose to keep the line in his name. Didn't really think much of the idea at the time, but it works wonders for knowing who to hang up on now. No surer sign of a telemarketer than getting a phone call soliciting a guy who's been dead for 15 years.
Another sign of the cluelessness of the average phone-spammer is when they call asking for "Mr. and Mrs. $YOURLASTNAME"...and you're still single.
Cheaper... Get the minimum package and never answer that phone, but give it out to anyone that asks for it. Only the real calls will leave messages.
If only that really happened...most of the messages I get are for credit-repair scams, vacation "offers," and satellite-TV "deals." Fortunately, digital answering machines are good at cutting through all that crap in a few seconds.
I have had the same listed phone number for 11 years, though...there's a chance that might have something to do with it. The last time I moved, I decided to keep the old number...figured I was paying Sprint extra money for number portability (there's no option to not pay for it), so I might as well get something back for it. I've thought of switching to something like Vonage, but with POTS costing only $15 per month, I'm not sure that VoIP would be worth the added expense.
These must be those super cellphones that are built around computers rather than the ones you get with a basic plan. Better use than games on the things, although I'm at a loss as to how you'd actually type using the twelve digit keypad.
With a keyboard, perhaps? (Don't laugh...they're available for some phones. For instance, the packaging for the Motorola i95cl shows the phone plugged into something that resembles the keyboard for my Palm III.)
You typically need a direct connection between the two hosts, which means each host needs to be on a publically-accessible IP address. NAT typically puts entire networks behind one address, which won't work. (You can set up multiple IP addresses on the NAT's external interface and route each one to a different host behind the NAT, but you'll need the publically-accessible IP addresses to make it work...our DSL connection at work gives us a/28 block with which to do this.)
I bet the FIRST trick is make it too big to be burned to a CDR.
Put it on DVD-R, then...they're getting cheap enough now.
On the other hand you can bet your ass there will be DRM out the wazoo on these files. It will be interesting seeing how quickly they can be removed.
Having never run across a DRM'd file, it's hard to say...maybe it'd be possible to cobble something together between GraphEdit and the Windows Media Format SDK that would at least strip out the DRM. As for converting to other formats, mplayer seems to do a better job than anything else. (WMV allows for either variable framerate or frame skipping...not sure which, but I know you don't get frames from the decoder at a constant rate. mplayer converts WMV to AVI by writing a 1000-fps AVI with the source frames put in wherever they need to go. You can then use an Avisynth script to convert the framerate to something more normal (like 29.97 fps) before reencoding with whatever you want.)
I don't know about Real, but then I don't have any of their stuff on any of my computers.
Nah, they are going to put it into M$ Word format. Let's see anyone figure that one out.
So, let me see if I have this right - you think that files off a pay-for-music download site are more likely to be infected vs. files on Kazaa?
FWIW, MP3s will never fire up your browser and send it someplace you don't want to go. WMA (and WMV) files can have embedded links that pop open a web-browser window. Such a link could go to a page that would attempt to exploit this DirectX vulnerability to whatever end its creator wants. You'll never get porn popups or auto-installed spyware from playing MP3s.
(As for downloads from a pay-for-music site, it's conceivable that they could take advantage of this capability for user tracking or even some sort of DRM scheme. Porn popups are admittedly not something they'd likely slip in.)
A big flaw with windows update is that you have to get the whone 11mb per computer.
Put an HTTP proxy server between your LAN and the Internet. The first download will take a while, but your proxy should cache it so that subsequent downloads on other systems on your LAN will be much faster.
We were "afraid" of communists because their ideology threatened ours and the gov needed a scapegoat (better dead than red).
There's also the little matter of the communists attempting to take over the world...what you characterize as an irrational fear (maybe even a phobia) was anything but irrational. Here's some readingmaterial for you to consider as an antidote for what your teachers and the press have told you.
Don't go in July.. It's damn hot.. not too humid, but damn hot..
I live in Vegas, and we must be coming up on monsoon season...it's muggy as hell. (At least it seems that way after you've gotten used to the dry weather we have the rest of the year.) It's still damn hot, too...110+, or close to it. July and August are not when you want to come here. It's pretty warm in June and September, but not like it is now...right now, you want to just stay inside and not have to go outside.
I'm heading up there this weekend for the Oregon Brewers Festival...any recommendations on other places to see and things to do, brewing-oriented or not? (Someone already mentioned the Spruce Goose is in McMinnville, which is a bit southwest of Portland and along the way to the Rogue brewery...)
Going by some of the blanks on the form, it would appear to mainly be aimed at stockholders filing a complaint. While I'd like nothing better than to kick SCO <voice style="eric-cartman">square in the nuts</voice>, I own no SCO stock and I haven't contributed so much as a bugfix into Linux. As far as the SEC is concerned, I'd pretty much have no standing and no grounds for a complaint.
If someone can show me where I'm wrong in this line of thought, though, I'm all ears...
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How does the presence of name-brand products in your home depend on having seen an ad for those products? There are plenty of alternate sources of product information (review sites, in-store product information, etc.) from which you can make your buying decisions. I don't recall ever seeing/hearing any ads from Kenwood in TV, radio, or print, but I bought one of their receivers a few months ago.
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They probably figure that most people have only one hard drive installed. For those of us who do have more, this would be a somewhat less-than-optimal system...unless you only use one of these with the drive that has your nuclear secrets/mp3z/pr0n/whatever and keep the rest of the system on unencrypted storage (why bother encrypting your Windows install?).
This is where Abit's promotional material is a bit too much hype...if you're truly interested in keeping certain data secure, you're sure as hell not going to make the machine on which it resides network-accessible. As long as the key is in, the drive is potentially accessible to any h4x0r who manages to root your box. If it's truly important enough, you'll keep it off your LAN. To get files into and out of it, you'll use floppies or CD-RWs and sneakernet.
Your parents never let you watch Bugs Bunny, did they? It was a slightly more polite way to say "moron."
Pot. Kettle. Black.
That link only shows up if you allow their useless Flash to play...here is the URL to the page that describes how it all goes together.
It looks like something that could be added on to any computer system...it's just a board that sits on the IDE cable between the motherboard and the drive. Plug in the key and your computer boots up; leave it unplugged and you get garbage.
(A quick check of Enova's website indicates they're using triple-DES encryption. They have a PCI IDE controller and a USB 2.0 external drive case that include their encryption hardware.)
Before continuing to demonstrate your ignorance on this subject, you might wish to visit this site and enlighten yourself. At the very least, you might consider at least not automatically taking what these maroons say as gospel. This is also highly-recommended reading.
It's just a suggestion...take it or leave it, but I'd rather not engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. It's too much like shooting fish in a barrel...it quickly gets boring.
Useless? They've been useful at putting holes in pieces of paper at varying distances. That was the sole purpose for one of them (.22s aren't all that hot at stopping people), and while the larger of the two was purchased for defensive purposes, it's not been needed in that role yet...it's kinda like a B-36 in that regard.
Later versions were ProDOS-based, which also made them HD-installable. I've used Copy II Plus 7/8/9 more for moving data between DOS 3.3 and ProDOS than for breaking copy prevention (their file utilities were faster/easier than what Apple provided).
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.
What do bears have to do with this article?
(For the humor-impaired, the OP's Morse spells out OSO, not SOS. "Oso" is Spanish for "bear.")
Another sign of the cluelessness of the average phone-spammer is when they call asking for "Mr. and Mrs. $YOURLASTNAME"...and you're still single.
If only that really happened...most of the messages I get are for credit-repair scams, vacation "offers," and satellite-TV "deals." Fortunately, digital answering machines are good at cutting through all that crap in a few seconds.
I have had the same listed phone number for 11 years, though...there's a chance that might have something to do with it. The last time I moved, I decided to keep the old number...figured I was paying Sprint extra money for number portability (there's no option to not pay for it), so I might as well get something back for it. I've thought of switching to something like Vonage, but with POTS costing only $15 per month, I'm not sure that VoIP would be worth the added expense.
With a keyboard, perhaps? (Don't laugh...they're available for some phones. For instance, the packaging for the Motorola i95cl shows the phone plugged into something that resembles the keyboard for my Palm III.)
You typically need a direct connection between the two hosts, which means each host needs to be on a publically-accessible IP address. NAT typically puts entire networks behind one address, which won't work. (You can set up multiple IP addresses on the NAT's external interface and route each one to a different host behind the NAT, but you'll need the publically-accessible IP addresses to make it work...our DSL connection at work gives us a /28 block with which to do this.)
Maybe...but that still doesn't change the fact that verbing weirds language.
Put it on DVD-R, then...they're getting cheap enough now.
Having never run across a DRM'd file, it's hard to say...maybe it'd be possible to cobble something together between GraphEdit and the Windows Media Format SDK that would at least strip out the DRM. As for converting to other formats, mplayer seems to do a better job than anything else. (WMV allows for either variable framerate or frame skipping...not sure which, but I know you don't get frames from the decoder at a constant rate. mplayer converts WMV to AVI by writing a 1000-fps AVI with the source frames put in wherever they need to go. You can then use an Avisynth script to convert the framerate to something more normal (like 29.97 fps) before reencoding with whatever you want.)
I don't know about Real, but then I don't have any of their stuff on any of my computers.
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Score: -1, Unimaginative, Repetitive Microsoft-Bashing.
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FWIW, MP3s will never fire up your browser and send it someplace you don't want to go. WMA (and WMV) files can have embedded links that pop open a web-browser window. Such a link could go to a page that would attempt to exploit this DirectX vulnerability to whatever end its creator wants. You'll never get porn popups or auto-installed spyware from playing MP3s.
(As for downloads from a pay-for-music site, it's conceivable that they could take advantage of this capability for user tracking or even some sort of DRM scheme. Porn popups are admittedly not something they'd likely slip in.)
Put an HTTP proxy server between your LAN and the Internet. The first download will take a while, but your proxy should cache it so that subsequent downloads on other systems on your LAN will be much faster.
There's also the little matter of the communists attempting to take over the world...what you characterize as an irrational fear (maybe even a phobia) was anything but irrational. Here's some reading material for you to consider as an antidote for what your teachers and the press have told you.
I live in Vegas, and we must be coming up on monsoon season...it's muggy as hell. (At least it seems that way after you've gotten used to the dry weather we have the rest of the year.) It's still damn hot, too...110+, or close to it. July and August are not when you want to come here. It's pretty warm in June and September, but not like it is now...right now, you want to just stay inside and not have to go outside.
I'm heading up there this weekend for the Oregon Brewers Festival...any recommendations on other places to see and things to do, brewing-oriented or not? (Someone already mentioned the Spruce Goose is in McMinnville, which is a bit southwest of Portland and along the way to the Rogue brewery...)
If someone can show me where I'm wrong in this line of thought, though, I'm all ears...