Sorry, gotta disagree there. The "you typed it, you meant it" structure ADDS to the discussion. On "every comment other site" you see responses to comments that are NO LONGER as they were posted.
We have that here, the moderation system hides what you were replying to so you have to quote it.
Would you like to discuss all the vulnerabilities in Windows various versions, that has led to MILLIONS of different Malware??? Why doesn't Mickey$oft fix most of these??? They simply refuse!!!
I will take Linux, Open Source and Free Software any day of the week, and will deal with any flaws that come up. They are usually corrected quite quickly, and in this case, I am sure they spent a lot of time testing to inure all is fixed.
I sleep very well at night using Linux, and NOT using Windows software as much as humanly possible.
Who, the hell, said anything about Windows OR Linux besides you? OpenSSL runs on everything. Do you really think we shouldn't hold OpenSSL, or any open source software to a higher standard, "because Microsoft"?
.... are your parents OK with you using the Internet all by yourself?
I recently had someone explain it to me as "Well, when I was growing up I'd watch my friend play video games but I didn't really like playing them so much myself"... I still don't get it.
Most people should grow out of that at what, eight years old when they learn how to play most games themselves?
I understand why people would rather watch things than participate because of the risk, expense, or physical exertion, but why are we making video games that intimidate wider and wider ranges of people?
By all means, please invent a sport involving motorcycles on ice with chainsaws, but not another real time strategy game that people are afraid to play. Computers shouldn't harbor exclusivity.
would have rivaled the old East German Stasi in scope and reach
First, I think Germans under the Stasi would have traded us all their national security/law enforcement & intelligence folks for all ours today in a heartbeat, and if you think otherwise you are stark raving mad. Intelligence isn't evil, getting arrested for dissent is, regardless how you're found out.
Sure, recent congressional actions (Thank you, Sen. Paul!) have put an end to at least one program...
What the hell are you talking about, his goal was to amend the Freedom Act. The Senate passed the unmodified House version days later. This is right out of Senator Paul's mouth days ago. http://www.paul.senate.gov/new...
"Tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection. The bill will ultimately pass but we always look for silver linings. I think the bill may be replacing one form of bulk collection with another, but the government after this bill passes will no longer collect your phone records. My concern is that the phone companies still may do the same thing.
Currently, my understanding is the N.S.A. Is at the phone company sucking up the phone records and sending them to Utah. My concern is under the new program, that the records will still be sucked up into N.S.A. Computers but the computers will be at the phone company, not in Utah. "
So there is some big concern about the NSA having your datas, but nobody gives a shit about the phone/email/whatever company not having any restrictions on use or distribution of "your" data in the first place. What is wrong here.
Yeah, phone meta data collection is bad and unconstitutional
Citation?
http://www.paul.senate.gov/new... "We went to the court, the Second Court of Appeals, the highest court in the land just below the Supreme Court, said that what they are doing is illegal, but we don't yet have a ruling on whether it's Constitutional. One of my fears about the bill that we're going to pass, the sort of in-between step that some think it may be better, is that it will moot the case. "
Privacy laws related to electronic communications and data storage need to be updated
Update... besides HIPAA there's... what?
At least you're on the right track because the constitutional angle is just crap.
My biggest problem with all this is when people throw around words like freedom, liberty, constitution because they are too mentally lazy to admit we don't really have much in the way of privacy protection laws and the Constitution doesn't actually go there. So each and every time I hear "fourth amendment" instead of "privacy" I tune out a little more from this spying debate.
Well, it can't be hypothesis number 2, because this is the team that is fighting against terrorism. So that narrows down the possibilities a bit. HTH.
Terrorism is defined by the US military roughly as violence or threats of violence driven by religious, ideological or political reasons.
An attack on a strategic building like a command and control center doesn't fit any more than your average serial killing spree does.
It does't have anything to do with who is involved, and it's not simply "scaring people". Terrorism is a label we use to describe a type of conflict that we didn't have another a good word for. Not everything ISIS does is "terrorism", but that shouldn't change how anyone regards them. Don't get hung up on labels...
I don't view IT as an epithet I view it as a specific skillset that we don't need full time in house. IT is about being an expert at OS, Network and Database management. If we want to deploy openstack, we call our contract IT company. If our fileserver goes down, we call IT. If we are seeing a performance bottleneck in our network we call IT.
Everybody else though is focused on a completely different task, making great visual effects. To do that we write tools to assist artists, streamline workflow and automate time consuming tasks.
Are you even aware that there are businesses outside of hi-tech industries, or business functions that are not obviously hi-tech? No, you're not classic IT, but you're not far from it either.
Who deals with ediscovery software, your legal or generic OS/networking IT? Payroll software, is that your HR or OS/networking IT? ERP, accounting, marketing, sales, business intelligence, customer support, etc.
Are all those teams equally equipped with tech-ninjas or has every facet of the company that doesn't deal with making visual effects been outsourced too? How is your company NOT full of technical consultants and contractors? What about other businesses, logistics, fraud, risk, billing, patient records, photography, blah blah blah blah... these are not all on the same page in the technical spectrum.
Fucking developers, I swear. The fact you even know what Linux is makes you such an outlier and you don't even know it. Technology benefits more than just companies that "make great visual effects"... I should have just said that and saved a lot of typing. The problem is even if more business leaders understood technology, the solutions are just awful.
[T]he survey of 436 global business leaders finds that only 23% are confident their organizations have the knowledge and skills to succeed in the digital aspects of their business.
The organisation as a whole probably has enough knowledge present to adequately cope with digital demands, but this knowledge is never tapped, because most of it isn't formalised in a certificate or diploma, so it doesn't officially exist. Therefore the employees are digital peasants and the company is doomed.
What's tapping, paying someone outside the IT department market rates to administer the highly specialized, complex software different parts of the business need that the IT department typically doesn't want to give up headcount for because they have a broader mission?
The software regular IT people deal with is, as a rule, more complex than it needs to be, and specialized business software that can really make a difference to the bottom line requires knowledge of the respective business function and is LUDICROUSLY more complex than it needs to be.
These digital demands, we're talking about stuff your brightest guys in IT don't even want to touch. So sure, if you think you all can pool your collective PC skills to supplant some overpaid contractors, nobody from your CIO down is stopping you, it just does't work.
The media in the USA is the most dishonest I've seen. Their entire goal is to generate misinfotainment that is interesting enough to generate more ad revenue.
They also have some enlightening articles right on their front page: "Internet troll convictions on the rise (VIDEO)" "Counter attack: MP asks law enforcers to protect Russians from Google page counts" "Putin signs bill on ‘undesirable foreign groups’ into law" "Defense Ministry to improve conscripts’ preparedness through military lessons in schools" "Snowden leaks aided terrorists, damaged spy agencies – neocon think-tank"
Oh, and they have hardly any ads on their site and no subscription plan, so I guess their funded some other way... neat!
According to Smith v. Maryland, Law enforcement doesn't need a warrant for pen registers, because people have no expectation of privacy in the numbers they called. That one decision has led to the entire NSA metadata collection, as well as unrestrained use of Stingrays and similar devices. Remember that next time someone sneers at the slippery slope.
I'm sneering at your "slippery slope"
You're saying case law is a slippery slope, which is asinine because a judge's job is to interpret the law that legislators write. It's not to make you happy, and that's why you don't elect them. In this case, we're talking about Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - it doesn't do what you want it to.
If you don't like that, then man up and talk to your legislators and get new laws or amendments passed, or at least acknowledge that's what's needed. Laws that aren't interpreted the way you want are not "slippery slopes". There may be unintended consequences, and you will have to deal with those in ANY new law you propose, that's how the system works. You can't just wish all existing laws into covering every situation the way you want them to. Our legal system is not in a vacuum.
Keep in mind that fps still uses hitboxes, while modding the head may not mean 100% headshots, youd have to change the hitbox size.
True, but big heads have other purposes.
Some people used to give Quake Team Fortress player models a long spike on their head and a Pinocchio nose to see them coming from a lower level and through walls in 2fort. Mark up textures with glow-in-the-dark "fullbright" pixels, increase the volume on grenade priming, footsteps, etc...
So... you still really don't want to allow client side mods in multiplayer, because there is a whole more than physics to mess with.
Did I trip into a time warp and come out a decade in the past? Who the fuck is actually talking about hadoop or map reduce in 2015? The same retards that were creaming their little cunts about it in 2005?
Even when you ignore the joke that is Java, hadoop is unwieldy, unreliable shit if you actually care about storing and retrieving correct, synchronized data. If you're fine with throwing all of your data in a pot and getting some sort of result that looks mostly correct, then knock yourself out and use hadoop.
If your data needs to be correct, define it and its relationships then use SQL. You will have to pay someone decent money to do this correctly.
None of these complaints seem to keep people from using Splunk.... unstructured data soup isn't going anywhere at any scale, we'll just call it different things. I can't even fathom a world where all the data we analyze in Splunk could have been fed into Oracle and turned into usable reports. All of our users would have to be Oracle DBAs.
I looked into this because I once wondered why no one uses thumb drives for backup. Thumb drives are reasonably safe for a couple years but after that many can degrade. I saw many sites indicating that flash is not a safe media. This caused me to wonder what they did different in SSD technology. The only safe media that I know of is tape.
Tape is some of a myth.
The only safe media, is that which you keep copying before it deteriorates. Not HDDs, not SSDs, not CDs, not thumbdrives, and not tape. Any media you leave untouched past its data retention period, will lose data.
What you need is to check every copy of your data for any sign of degradation, and replace it with a fresh copy as soon as, or before, it begins to fail. Tape may give you the most time between checks, but it doesn't change the fact that data you forget about is data you will lose.
You're talking about archives I think, and the previous guy was talking about long term backups.
An archive might be the only copy of your data, and everything you said applies. But backups only have to live as long as your retention period, so once you meet that requirement, you're set.
The biggest myth is that backups or archives are simple:\
CIA: Hey, MI5.... Can you do me a favour? I'll owe you one. MI5: Sure, what do you need? CIA: Can you skim through these PCs and look for evidence of this thing I'd like to know about? MI5: Sure, no problem.
Hate to ruin a joke, but the computers we're talking about were the CIA's. The data on them was provided by the CIA, in a facility run by the CIA.
Couple of things.. the Senate Committee made copies of sensitive documents and removed them from that CIA run facility. CIA staff erased some documents that they felt they should not have made available to the Committee, and they searched the computers to determine how the information left the facility.
It's easy to argue both sides were doing their jobs, as expected. The dispute is all office politics.
I won't judge either side in this, but I will point out that if you morons are really upset about the CIA searching these computers, you are overlooking the bigger picture that money was wasted on this facility in the first place because they didn't use existing CIA or Senate resources, and it only housed information the CIA spent even more money on sanitizing.
That the committee ever saw any documents that the CIA didn't want them to says everything about this whole situation. This whole thing is just dumb on all sides, including the spectators.
I don't understand why you think it was to no useful end. The muslim was intercepted and dispatched before he could execute his murderous plan. I consider this a spectacular success.
Because none of that warrantless spying contributed in any way to stopping him.
"Warrantless spying" doesn't make sense, did you mean "unreasonable search"? Spying involves a whole world of things nobody needs a warrant for, and anyone can legally do.
You're right it didn't stop them. Should it have? Is pre-crime the only goal of intelligence? It does give us a lot of information about them and who they had been communicating with. Is that not useful?
First time I've seen anyone asking the obvious question: if the guy was being watched by the FBI for the last N years, how did he ever get close enough to the event to start shooting it up? Could have turned out a lot worse.
How many of our taxpayer dollars were wasted watching this guy to no useful end? How many are spent on even more useless activities?
What do you expect, nonstop realtime GPS tracking via secretly ingested pill with fleet of black helicopters ready to scramble if he moves? Get real.
Aren't you interested in finding others they may have conspired with? Now how do you think THAT's going to happen?
Years ago I had a laptop that could be effectively turned into a portable hard disk drive depending on some weird keystrokes at boot-time. I can't remember exactly how it worked now (but I think it was Firewire) but I had considered building a diskless desktop computer that the laptop would dock into, where the desktop was orders of magnitude more powerful, so the desktop would boot from the laptop's disk.
To make this happen I was going to use Linux, as Windows would have thrown a bitch-fit over the differences in architecture and chipset. Never got around to it before the laptop was hopelessly obsolete and newer ones didn't have the feature anymore.
I could see a dock with all of the accessories that someone would want in a desktop that has storage to mirror the phone's contents in the event the phone is broken or gone, but only if it's not tied to a single model of phone.
I think any Mac can do that, boot from external storage and target disk mode, but I don't see the utility outside of testing OS releases or doing repairs. You could always keep a VM image on a removable drive if you wanted a portable OS and you wouldn't have to shut it down if your systems architectures are all close enough to do suspend/resume. Well... no-go on a phone.
IDK, unless you are carrying a disk array in your pocket, it seems like replacing local storage would be a bad bet. So what I don't get is why do the processing on the mobile device vs. using it as removeable storage.
Interesting. Thanks. But the entire fleet was not down, only several dozen. The ipads "powered down unexpectedly", not the type of behavior you expect from changes to a document data change, but a very common problem when an app or OS has been updated or changed in some manner.
You're right, it was just dozens - I misremembered the article. But they all appeared to be at the same time. You can't do auto update on the OS itself, though an app update could happen automatically. But supposedly they could not get the iPads to work at all without reconnecting to the airport WiFi network. That doesn't make much sense for any kind of update.
The fix mentioned in the article was deleting and reinstalling the app, so that's probably got to do with it. It's a big app?
Honestly, the Apple-ness of this is completely irrelevant, and you know damned well it is.
Actually it's entirely relevant.
An application took down the entire OS. This is exactly the thing we derided Microsoft for allowing for so long. I've been working with Android, including some very dodgy hacked versions for my Motorola Milestone and I've never had an application crash the OS. Sure applications have crashed but that would be back to the home screen (androids version of a crash to desktop) but never had it take down the entire OS. Even in modern Windows it's very hard for an application to cause the OS to reboot.
So first off, it demonstrates the application was not properly sandboxed by the OS.
Secondly, I thought this was exactly the kind of thing Apple's "well curated" walled garden is meant to prevent.
So not only is it difficult for the same thing to happen on Windows, Linux or Android, but Apple is supposed to have extra protection against this kind of thing.
Get back on your meds please.
"No flights were canceled, and pilots have been notified how to fix the bug, by deleting the app and re-installing it. Apple said it had confirmed that the iPads’ own hardware and operating system did not crash, and that the issue was with the Jeppesen app."
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, gotta disagree there. The "you typed it, you meant it" structure ADDS to the discussion. On "every comment other site" you see responses to comments that are NO LONGER as they were posted.
We have that here, the moderation system hides what you were replying to so you have to quote it.
Would you like to discuss all the vulnerabilities in Windows various versions, that has led to MILLIONS of different Malware??? Why doesn't Mickey$oft fix most of these??? They simply refuse!!!
I will take Linux, Open Source and Free Software any day of the week, and will deal with any flaws that come up. They are usually corrected quite quickly, and in this case, I am sure they spent a lot of time testing to inure all is fixed.
I sleep very well at night using Linux, and NOT using Windows software as much as humanly possible.
Who, the hell, said anything about Windows OR Linux besides you? OpenSSL runs on everything.
Do you really think we shouldn't hold OpenSSL, or any open source software to a higher standard, "because Microsoft"?
. ... are your parents OK with you using the Internet all by yourself?
I recently had someone explain it to me as "Well, when I was growing up I'd watch my friend play video games but I didn't really like playing them so much myself"... I still don't get it.
Most people should grow out of that at what, eight years old when they learn how to play most games themselves?
I understand why people would rather watch things than participate because of the risk, expense, or physical exertion, but why are we making video games that intimidate wider and wider ranges of people?
By all means, please invent a sport involving motorcycles on ice with chainsaws, but not another real time strategy game that people are afraid to play. Computers shouldn't harbor exclusivity.
would have rivaled the old East German Stasi in scope and reach
First, I think Germans under the Stasi would have traded us all their national security/law enforcement & intelligence folks for all ours today in a heartbeat, and if you think otherwise you are stark raving mad. Intelligence isn't evil, getting arrested for dissent is, regardless how you're found out.
Sure, recent congressional actions (Thank you, Sen. Paul!) have put an end to at least one program...
What the hell are you talking about, his goal was to amend the Freedom Act. The Senate passed the unmodified House version days later. This is right out of Senator Paul's mouth days ago. http://www.paul.senate.gov/new...
"Tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection. The bill will ultimately pass but we always look for silver linings. I think the bill may be replacing one form of bulk collection with another, but the government after this bill passes will no longer collect your phone records. My concern is that the phone companies still may do the same thing.
Currently, my understanding is the N.S.A. Is at the phone company sucking up the phone records and sending them to Utah. My concern is under the new program, that the records will still be sucked up into N.S.A. Computers but the computers will be at the phone company, not in Utah. "
So there is some big concern about the NSA having your datas, but nobody gives a shit about the phone/email/whatever company not having any restrictions on use or distribution of "your" data in the first place. What is wrong here.
Yeah, phone meta data collection is bad and unconstitutional
Citation?
http://www.paul.senate.gov/new...
"We went to the court, the Second Court of Appeals, the highest court in the land just below the Supreme Court, said that what they are doing is illegal, but we don't yet have a ruling on whether it's Constitutional. One of my fears about the bill that we're going to pass, the sort of in-between step that some think it may be better, is that it will moot the case. "
Privacy laws related to electronic communications and data storage need to be updated
Update... besides HIPAA there's... what?
At least you're on the right track because the constitutional angle is just crap.
My biggest problem with all this is when people throw around words like freedom, liberty, constitution because they are too mentally lazy to admit we don't really have much in the way of privacy protection laws and the Constitution doesn't actually go there. So each and every time I hear "fourth amendment" instead of "privacy" I tune out a little more from this spying debate.
Well, it can't be hypothesis number 2, because this is the team that is fighting against terrorism. So that narrows down the possibilities a bit. HTH.
Terrorism is defined by the US military roughly as violence or threats of violence driven by religious, ideological or political reasons.
An attack on a strategic building like a command and control center doesn't fit any more than your average serial killing spree does.
It does't have anything to do with who is involved, and it's not simply "scaring people". Terrorism is a label we use to describe a type of conflict that we didn't have another a good word for. Not everything ISIS does is "terrorism", but that shouldn't change how anyone regards them. Don't get hung up on labels...
I agree.. but then again, what can you do when they are driving below the speed limit in the middle lane?
Use the left lane?
"bad guys" will continue to use home made encryption and not give a fuck what governments say.
Heh Heh.
"You SHOULD roll your own encryption, and you can't be too careful so don't forget to make your own PRNG too." -- Well Funded Intelligence Agency
I made that up. But you know it's true.
I don't view IT as an epithet I view it as a specific skillset that we don't need full time in house. IT is about being an expert at OS, Network and Database management. If we want to deploy openstack, we call our contract IT company. If our fileserver goes down, we call IT. If we are seeing a performance bottleneck in our network we call IT.
Everybody else though is focused on a completely different task, making great visual effects. To do that we write tools to assist artists, streamline workflow and automate time consuming tasks.
Are you even aware that there are businesses outside of hi-tech industries, or business functions that are not obviously hi-tech?
No, you're not classic IT, but you're not far from it either.
Who deals with ediscovery software, your legal or generic OS/networking IT?
Payroll software, is that your HR or OS/networking IT?
ERP, accounting, marketing, sales, business intelligence, customer support, etc.
Are all those teams equally equipped with tech-ninjas or has every facet of the company that doesn't deal with making visual effects been outsourced too?
How is your company NOT full of technical consultants and contractors?
What about other businesses, logistics, fraud, risk, billing, patient records, photography, blah blah blah blah... these are not all on the same page in the technical spectrum.
Fucking developers, I swear. The fact you even know what Linux is makes you such an outlier and you don't even know it. ... I should have just said that and saved a lot of typing.
Technology benefits more than just companies that "make great visual effects"
The problem is even if more business leaders understood technology, the solutions are just awful.
Yeah, but it appears that Capitalism is really demanding that executives be more highly compensated.
http://www.eveningsun.com/opin...
Pay for the top 200 executives has gone up 21%. The average in 2014 was $17.6 million.
To hell with STEM, lets start pushing business, economics, and leadership training for everyone, there's clearly a supply problem here...
This is also typical:
The organisation as a whole probably has enough knowledge present to adequately cope with digital demands, but this knowledge is never tapped, because most of it isn't formalised in a certificate or diploma, so it doesn't officially exist. Therefore the employees are digital peasants and the company is doomed.
What's tapping, paying someone outside the IT department market rates to administer the highly specialized, complex software different parts of the business need that the IT department typically doesn't want to give up headcount for because they have a broader mission?
The software regular IT people deal with is, as a rule, more complex than it needs to be, and specialized business software that can really make a difference to the bottom line requires knowledge of the respective business function and is LUDICROUSLY more complex than it needs to be.
These digital demands, we're talking about stuff your brightest guys in IT don't even want to touch. So sure, if you think you all can pool your collective PC skills to supplant some overpaid contractors, nobody from your CIO down is stopping you, it just does't work.
The media in the USA is the most dishonest I've seen. Their entire goal is to generate misinfotainment that is interesting enough to generate more ad revenue.
I went to rt.com to get the other side, and it's really about the same as the CNN one.
http://rt.com/news/261201-rosc...
They also have some enlightening articles right on their front page:
"Internet troll convictions on the rise (VIDEO)"
"Counter attack: MP asks law enforcers to protect Russians from Google page counts"
"Putin signs bill on ‘undesirable foreign groups’ into law"
"Defense Ministry to improve conscripts’ preparedness through military lessons in schools"
"Snowden leaks aided terrorists, damaged spy agencies – neocon think-tank"
Oh, and they have hardly any ads on their site and no subscription plan, so I guess their funded some other way... neat!
According to Smith v. Maryland, Law enforcement doesn't need a warrant for pen registers, because people have no expectation of privacy in the numbers they called. That one decision has led to the entire NSA metadata collection, as well as unrestrained use of Stingrays and similar devices. Remember that next time someone sneers at the slippery slope.
I'm sneering at your "slippery slope"
You're saying case law is a slippery slope, which is asinine because a judge's job is to interpret the law that legislators write. It's not to make you happy, and that's why you don't elect them. In this case, we're talking about Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - it doesn't do what you want it to.
If you don't like that, then man up and talk to your legislators and get new laws or amendments passed, or at least acknowledge that's what's needed. Laws that aren't interpreted the way you want are not "slippery slopes". There may be unintended consequences, and you will have to deal with those in ANY new law you propose, that's how the system works. You can't just wish all existing laws into covering every situation the way you want them to. Our legal system is not in a vacuum.
Keep in mind that fps still uses hitboxes, while modding the head may not mean 100% headshots, youd have to change the hitbox size.
True, but big heads have other purposes.
Some people used to give Quake Team Fortress player models a long spike on their head and a Pinocchio nose to see them coming from a lower level and through walls in 2fort. Mark up textures with glow-in-the-dark "fullbright" pixels, increase the volume on grenade priming, footsteps, etc...
So... you still really don't want to allow client side mods in multiplayer, because there is a whole more than physics to mess with.
So he did the needful?
Kindly?
Did I trip into a time warp and come out a decade in the past?
Who the fuck is actually talking about hadoop or map reduce in 2015? The same retards that were creaming their little cunts about it in 2005?
Even when you ignore the joke that is Java, hadoop is unwieldy, unreliable shit if you actually care about storing and retrieving correct, synchronized data.
If you're fine with throwing all of your data in a pot and getting some sort of result that looks mostly correct, then knock yourself out and use hadoop.
If your data needs to be correct, define it and its relationships then use SQL. You will have to pay someone decent money to do this correctly.
None of these complaints seem to keep people from using Splunk.... unstructured data soup isn't going anywhere at any scale, we'll just call it different things.
I can't even fathom a world where all the data we analyze in Splunk could have been fed into Oracle and turned into usable reports. All of our users would have to be Oracle DBAs.
I looked into this because I once wondered why no one uses thumb drives for backup. Thumb drives are reasonably safe for a couple years but after that many can degrade. I saw many sites indicating that flash is not a safe media. This caused me to wonder what they did different in SSD technology. The only safe media that I know of is tape.
Tape is some of a myth.
The only safe media, is that which you keep copying before it deteriorates. Not HDDs, not SSDs, not CDs, not thumbdrives, and not tape. Any media you leave untouched past its data retention period, will lose data.
What you need is to check every copy of your data for any sign of degradation, and replace it with a fresh copy as soon as, or before, it begins to fail. Tape may give you the most time between checks, but it doesn't change the fact that data you forget about is data you will lose.
You're talking about archives I think, and the previous guy was talking about long term backups.
An archive might be the only copy of your data, and everything you said applies. But backups only have to live as long as your retention period, so once you meet that requirement, you're set.
The biggest myth is that backups or archives are simple :\
CIA: Hey, MI5.... Can you do me a favour? I'll owe you one.
MI5: Sure, what do you need?
CIA: Can you skim through these PCs and look for evidence of this thing I'd like to know about?
MI5: Sure, no problem.
Hate to ruin a joke, but the computers we're talking about were the CIA's. The data on them was provided by the CIA, in a facility run by the CIA.
Couple of things.. the Senate Committee made copies of sensitive documents and removed them from that CIA run facility.
CIA staff erased some documents that they felt they should not have made available to the Committee, and they searched the computers to determine how the information left the facility.
It's easy to argue both sides were doing their jobs, as expected. The dispute is all office politics.
I won't judge either side in this, but I will point out that if you morons are really upset about the CIA searching these computers, you are overlooking the bigger picture that money was wasted on this facility in the first place because they didn't use existing CIA or Senate resources, and it only housed information the CIA spent even more money on sanitizing.
That the committee ever saw any documents that the CIA didn't want them to says everything about this whole situation. This whole thing is just dumb on all sides, including the spectators.
Extingush Chef and Puppet - the two open and pre-existing ways to do what DCM does.
I'm a Puppet admin, and sorry, but declarative instructions should be built into EVERYTHING.
It's the way computing should be done.
See what I did there?
I don't understand why you think it was to no useful end. The muslim was intercepted and dispatched before he could execute his murderous plan. I consider this a spectacular success.
Because none of that warrantless spying contributed in any way to stopping him.
"Warrantless spying" doesn't make sense, did you mean "unreasonable search"? Spying involves a whole world of things nobody needs a warrant for, and anyone can legally do.
You're right it didn't stop them. Should it have? Is pre-crime the only goal of intelligence?
It does give us a lot of information about them and who they had been communicating with. Is that not useful?
Someone mod this up.
First time I've seen anyone asking the obvious question: if the guy was being watched by the FBI for the last N years, how did he ever get close enough to the event to start shooting it up? Could have turned out a lot worse.
How many of our taxpayer dollars were wasted watching this guy to no useful end? How many are spent on even more useless activities?
What do you expect, nonstop realtime GPS tracking via secretly ingested pill with fleet of black helicopters ready to scramble if he moves? Get real.
Aren't you interested in finding others they may have conspired with? Now how do you think THAT's going to happen?
Years ago I had a laptop that could be effectively turned into a portable hard disk drive depending on some weird keystrokes at boot-time. I can't remember exactly how it worked now (but I think it was Firewire) but I had considered building a diskless desktop computer that the laptop would dock into, where the desktop was orders of magnitude more powerful, so the desktop would boot from the laptop's disk.
To make this happen I was going to use Linux, as Windows would have thrown a bitch-fit over the differences in architecture and chipset. Never got around to it before the laptop was hopelessly obsolete and newer ones didn't have the feature anymore.
I could see a dock with all of the accessories that someone would want in a desktop that has storage to mirror the phone's contents in the event the phone is broken or gone, but only if it's not tied to a single model of phone.
I think any Mac can do that, boot from external storage and target disk mode, but I don't see the utility outside of testing OS releases or doing repairs.
You could always keep a VM image on a removable drive if you wanted a portable OS and you wouldn't have to shut it down if your systems architectures are all close enough to do suspend/resume. Well... no-go on a phone.
IDK, unless you are carrying a disk array in your pocket, it seems like replacing local storage would be a bad bet.
So what I don't get is why do the processing on the mobile device vs. using it as removeable storage.
Divide by zero causes the same problem on all OSes AFAIK.
Then the damn OS shouldn't allow it!
Is that geek version of "Please move the deer crossing"?
Interesting. Thanks. But the entire fleet was not down, only several dozen. The ipads "powered down unexpectedly", not the type of behavior you expect from changes to a document data change, but a very common problem when an app or OS has been updated or changed in some manner.
You're right, it was just dozens - I misremembered the article. But they all appeared to be at the same time. You can't do auto update on the OS itself, though an app update could happen automatically. But supposedly they could not get the iPads to work at all without reconnecting to the airport WiFi network. That doesn't make much sense for any kind of update.
The fix mentioned in the article was deleting and reinstalling the app, so that's probably got to do with it. It's a big app?
Honestly, the Apple-ness of this is completely irrelevant, and you know damned well it is.
Actually it's entirely relevant.
An application took down the entire OS. This is exactly the thing we derided Microsoft for allowing for so long. I've been working with Android, including some very dodgy hacked versions for my Motorola Milestone and I've never had an application crash the OS. Sure applications have crashed but that would be back to the home screen (androids version of a crash to desktop) but never had it take down the entire OS. Even in modern Windows it's very hard for an application to cause the OS to reboot.
So first off, it demonstrates the application was not properly sandboxed by the OS.
Secondly, I thought this was exactly the kind of thing Apple's "well curated" walled garden is meant to prevent.
So not only is it difficult for the same thing to happen on Windows, Linux or Android, but Apple is supposed to have extra protection against this kind of thing.
Get back on your meds please.
"No flights were canceled, and pilots have been notified how to fix the bug, by deleting the app and re-installing it. Apple said it had confirmed that the iPads’ own hardware and operating system did not crash, and that the issue was with the Jeppesen app."