Let me see if I understand this. If I pick up my phone in Clito, Georgia and call my uncle, it will be recorded because the FBI has installed a splitter in the Bulloch County Rural Telephone Coop local office? And where, exactly, do they tap my 56K modem signal when I'm downloading gif's from the bulletin board that uncle Harvey has setup?
I don't think that it is interesting that someone has figured a way to hack a running computer that they have physical access to. However, the hibernation file inspection hack had bothered me, or rather didn't bother me after I read the document.
from the link: Note: The issue described below does not affect you if the system partition or system drive is encrypted* (for more information, see the chapter System Encryption) and if the hibernation file is located on any of the partitions within the key scope of system encryption (which it typically is, by default), for example, on the partition where Windows is installed. When the computer hibernates, data are encrypted on the fly before they are written to the hibernation file.
When a computer hibernates (or enters a power-saving mode), the content of its system memory is written to a so-called hibernation file on the hard drive. You can configure TrueCrypt (Settings > Preferences > Dismount all when: Entering power saving mode) to automatically dismount all mounted TrueCrypt volumes, erase their master keys stored in RAM, and cached passwords (stored in RAM), if there are any, before a computer hibernates (or enters a power-saving mode). However, keep in mind, that if you do not use system encryption (see the chapter System Encryption), TrueCrypt still cannot reliably prevent the contents of sensitive files opened in RAM from being saved unencrypted to a hibernation file. Note that when you open a file stored on a TrueCrypt volume, for example, in a text editor, then the content of the file is stored unencrypted in RAM (and it may remain unencrypted in RAM until the computer is turned off).
Note that when Windows enters Sleep mode, it may be actually configured to enter so-called Hybrid Sleep mode, which involves hibernation. Also note that the operating system may be configured to hibernate or enter the Hybrid Sleep mode when you click or select "Shut down" (for more information, please see the documentation for your operating system).
To prevent the issues described above, encrypt the system partition/drive (for information on how to do so, see the chapter System Encryption) and make sure that the hibernation file is located on one the partitions within the key scope of system encryption (which it typically is, by default), for example, on the partition where Windows is installed. When the computer hibernates, data will be encrypted on the fly before they are written to the hibernation file.
Note: You may also want to consider creating a hidden operating system (for more information, see the section Hidden Operating System).
Alternatively, if you cannot use system encryption, disable or prevent hibernation on your computer at least for each session during which you work with any sensitive data and during which you mount a TrueCrypt volume.
* Disclaimer: As Windows XP and Windows 2003 do not provide any API for encryption of hibernation files, TrueCrypt has to modify undocumented components of Windows XP/2003 in order to allow users to encrypt hibernation files. Therefore, TrueCrypt cannot guarantee that Windows XP/2003 hibernation files will always be encrypted. In response to our public complaint regarding the missing API, Microsoft began providing a public API for encryption of hibernation files on Windows Vista and later versions of Windows (for more information, see the Version History, section TrueCrypt 5.1a). Since version 7.0, TrueCrypt has used this API and therefore has been able to safely encrypt hibernation files under Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. Therefore, if you use Windows XP/2003 and want the hibernation file to be safely encrypted, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Windows Vista or later and to TrueCrypt 7.0 or later.
As usual, most of the respondents either did not RTFA, or simply did not understand it because many of the respondents have got it exactly backwards. Management did not just make up a set of characteristics they thought would be good (in this case hire local drone) and hire those after doing a drone-test. That's the way it had been done for the last few thousand years.
So here's what happened. A company tests applicants for a very broad set of characteristics. They track the performance of the hires. They compare the success of the hires back to the characteristics found in the test. They make a model of the successful hires and then use that model to select future hires.
Scientific model: Construct hypotheses Gather data Conduct test compare result to hypotheses refine hypotheses
Anyone that is complaining about the algorithmic process and it's outcome has no idea how most people are typically hired. For the most part, It still boils down to 1: being someone's buddy/relative and 2: looking like someone the HR boss would like to hang out with. So I, for one, welcome our new algorithmic masters. ( having neither buddy nor looking like someone you would want to hang out with)
Also, this is very far from being new. I know of one upscale hotels started doing this a couple or three decades ago. They gave all their employees a variety of tests and observed what characteristics were associated with the successful ones in the various positions. Then, when people apply, they assign them to the position they'll be successful in. The end result is that successful floor-cleaners are happy and productive floor-cleaners, and people whose profile fits the front desk are happy and successful there. And it should be obvious that swapping those two people might create two very resentful employees. It really shows, too, if you ever stayed in a place like that how the good moods of the employees is almost Stepford-spooky.
I'm not from Florida, but even I know that you don't plan on doing anything down there during hurricane season that you can't back out of. This is really poor planning. I usually voted for that side, and that kind of not thinking ahead has made me more sad than usual.
I wondered why Tennessee. Is Tennessee the first place you would go to get extremely high-risk major surgery?
This article explains the process a bit better and how it helps to have money. That is, he did beat the system by shopping around, but he did not have to bribe anyone to get to the top of the list.
How do we know which side to be on when something is labeled a "conflict mineral"?. I ask because when you stop to consider the historical context of uprisings, the governments and corporations are not always the good guys. Would minerals (or oil) sold to support the recent Libya uprising be considered "conflict minerals" if they didn't support Khaddifi? Or is the criterion solely "if it wasn't mined by a corporation, it must be bad"?
For example, look at the "blood diamond" issue. Which is more ethical? Buying diamonds mined by individuals working their own land, or buying diamonds mined by De Beers?
I really do wonder if we should call BS on the whole "conflict minerals" thing. I suspect the issue exists solely for corporate profits, and it started because diamond prices were getting undercut by sales outside of the diamond cartel. There's a reason why De Beers was banned from the United States for so many decades. You gotta be pretty bad if your corporation is too evil for the USA.
Their study is a cool idea, but it looks to me like they made a hash of it. It's simply a way of locating college towns. How did the southern half of New Mexico/Arizona get designated a single area? That segment appears to contain Phoenix. OK, I can see 500 people there playing games, but how did they expand the metro area to include half of New Mexico? I wonder if it's just the IP space of a single ISP.
BTW, that yellow area in Georgia is probably Fort Benning - an area filled with people who have free time which may be filled with interruptions.
You may have already realized from the comments that many of the respondents took what you said: "I wondered why an elected representative couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to decide the way he or she votes." and interpreted it as: "I wondered why we couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to decide the whether or not a bill is passed." I think that is a reasonable interpretation, but I doubt that's what you meant.
I'm going with the belief that you meant to say something more like : "I wondered why an elected representative couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to assist with deciding the way he or she votes." If you did mean "to decide the whether or not a bill is passed.", I have a bowl of hot grits ready for your pants.
However, I'm of the belief that more information better than less even if some (or much) of the information you get is nonsense, what I think you're proposing is a good idea. If you're thinking of simply having online polling, I would rather you did something else.
Find someone who can setup a slashdot server for your constituents. I suggest that you control it so that you initiate the topics, decide how you want moderation done, and let us have at it. You will learn more than you had hoped, and some of it will be useful.
You by studying the target planet. Find or create a favored group of people. Inculcate them with the idea that they deserve their position by their being a better class of people.
Make them wealthy and assist with their gaining control of the natural resources and financial system as much as is possible with local resources.
Your next step is by loaning the target planet money to purchase off-planet resources, pump up their economy so everyone is relatively satisfied and dependent.
Find someone to blame, crash the economy and step in to gain ownership of as much as possible of what's left.
If war breaks out, or insurrection, you may need to sell weapons to the various sides to regain your investments while wating to gain control.
Raise the prices of what you sell and lower the prices of what you want to buy.
You wrote it wrong. Step 1 should read: 1. "Read all the instructions first." or 1. "Read all of the instructions before answering any questions" or 1. "Read all the instructions before performing any actions." and so on.
Women act more based on emotions and feelings than guys do, whereas guys will act on logic and black & white facts
Nope. I used to think this 40 years ago, which is about when I started my IT career (with 8 years off to teach physics.) My observation is that in general, men are much much more likely to get emotional in a business setting when there are differences of opinion. The way that they express emotion, from raised voices, blustering, filibustering to even stomping out of the room are somehow found to be socially acceptable. Men are the first to start emoting and are often the only ones. I've found that it is quite rare for a female to express emotion while in a business/professional setting and usually only after extreme provocation. On the other hand, it's almost a matter of course for men, especially those in or seeking to be management.
Is there anyone who is not aware that that raising your voice, shaking your head, pointing fingers, crossing arms etc are expressions of emotional behaviors?
The reason we give directions in terms like "drive west for.3 miles, then angle SE for another 1.7 miles before turning east" is that they're useless instructions. No one knows which way is west when they're lost. This is done so that the other male will be exhausted before you intercept him again. At that point it's easier to take his women, beer, and food (although not necesarily in that order).
My wife had been bugging me to throw out all those salmon I'd been keeping in the garage. "Whatever are you going to use them for?" she wanted to know. I'll show her this and then we'll know who's the clever one!
Hey thanks for reminding me. It looks updated since I installed the prerelease for Linux some months ago when it came out. It's still a pre-release, and some of us have jobs maintaining corporate environments. We want a released version.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me see if I understand this.
If I pick up my phone in Clito, Georgia and call my uncle, it will be recorded because the FBI has installed a splitter in the Bulloch County Rural Telephone Coop local office? And where, exactly, do they tap my 56K modem signal when I'm downloading gif's from the bulletin board that uncle Harvey has setup?
Something like a Wyse V90 on ebay; 79-99$
embedded windows with a read only file system
I don't think that it is interesting that someone has figured a way to hack a running computer that they have physical access to.
However, the hibernation file inspection hack had bothered me, or rather didn't bother me after I read the document.
Check out http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hibernation-file
from the link:
Note: The issue described below does not affect you if the system partition or system drive is encrypted* (for more information, see the chapter System Encryption) and if the hibernation file is located on any of the partitions within the key scope of system encryption (which it typically is, by default), for example, on the partition where Windows is installed. When the computer hibernates, data are encrypted on the fly before they are written to the hibernation file.
When a computer hibernates (or enters a power-saving mode), the content of its system memory is written to a so-called hibernation file on the hard drive. You can configure TrueCrypt (Settings > Preferences > Dismount all when: Entering power saving mode) to automatically dismount all mounted TrueCrypt volumes, erase their master keys stored in RAM, and cached passwords (stored in RAM), if there are any, before a computer hibernates (or enters a power-saving mode). However, keep in mind, that if you do not use system encryption (see the chapter System Encryption), TrueCrypt still cannot reliably prevent the contents of sensitive files opened in RAM from being saved unencrypted to a hibernation file. Note that when you open a file stored on a TrueCrypt volume, for example, in a text editor, then the content of the file is stored unencrypted in RAM (and it may remain unencrypted in RAM until the computer is turned off).
Note that when Windows enters Sleep mode, it may be actually configured to enter so-called Hybrid Sleep mode, which involves hibernation. Also note that the operating system may be configured to hibernate or enter the Hybrid Sleep mode when you click or select "Shut down" (for more information, please see the documentation for your operating system).
To prevent the issues described above, encrypt the system partition/drive (for information on how to do so, see the chapter System Encryption) and make sure that the hibernation file is located on one the partitions within the key scope of system encryption (which it typically is, by default), for example, on the partition where Windows is installed. When the computer hibernates, data will be encrypted on the fly before they are written to the hibernation file.
Note: You may also want to consider creating a hidden operating system (for more information, see the section Hidden Operating System).
Alternatively, if you cannot use system encryption, disable or prevent hibernation on your computer at least for each session during which you work with any sensitive data and during which you mount a TrueCrypt volume.
* Disclaimer: As Windows XP and Windows 2003 do not provide any API for encryption of hibernation files, TrueCrypt has to modify undocumented components of Windows XP/2003 in order to allow users to encrypt hibernation files. Therefore, TrueCrypt cannot guarantee that Windows XP/2003 hibernation files will always be encrypted. In response to our public complaint regarding the missing API, Microsoft began providing a public API for encryption of hibernation files on Windows Vista and later versions of Windows (for more information, see the Version History, section TrueCrypt 5.1a). Since version 7.0, TrueCrypt has used this API and therefore has been able to safely encrypt hibernation files under Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. Therefore, if you use Windows XP/2003 and want the hibernation file to be safely encrypted, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Windows Vista or later and to TrueCrypt 7.0 or later.
As usual, most of the respondents either did not RTFA, or simply did not understand it because many of the respondents have got it exactly backwards.
Management did not just make up a set of characteristics they thought would be good (in this case hire local drone) and hire those after doing a drone-test. That's the way it had been done for the last few thousand years.
So here's what happened.
A company tests applicants for a very broad set of characteristics.
They track the performance of the hires.
They compare the success of the hires back to the characteristics found in the test.
They make a model of the successful hires and then use that model to select future hires.
Scientific model:
Construct hypotheses
Gather data
Conduct test
compare result to hypotheses
refine hypotheses
Anyone that is complaining about the algorithmic process and it's outcome has no idea how most people are typically hired.
For the most part, It still boils down to 1: being someone's buddy/relative and 2: looking like someone the HR boss would like to hang out with.
So I, for one, welcome our new algorithmic masters. ( having neither buddy nor looking like someone you would want to hang out with)
Also, this is very far from being new. I know of one upscale hotels started doing this a couple or three decades ago.
They gave all their employees a variety of tests and observed what characteristics were associated with the successful ones in the various positions.
Then, when people apply, they assign them to the position they'll be successful in. The end result is that successful floor-cleaners are happy and productive floor-cleaners, and people whose profile fits the front desk are happy and successful there. And it should be obvious that swapping those two people might create two very resentful employees. It really shows, too, if you ever stayed in a place like that how the good moods of the employees is almost Stepford-spooky.
Periodically this gets brought out, looks like it's time again:
http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
That is correct. We're all hoping it does not turn around and come back.
Whatever else we may think about the USA, they have done some cool stuff from time to time.
You just listed a bunch of ways that our rulers enriched themselves and grabbed much, much more power.
I don't call that poor planning.
I'm not from Florida, but even I know that you don't plan on doing anything down there during hurricane season that you can't back out of.
This is really poor planning. I usually voted for that side, and that kind of not thinking ahead has made me more sad than usual.
I, for one, welcome our new botanical overlords.
And should it be limited to people with slashdot ID's of 4 digits or fewer?
I wondered why Tennessee. Is Tennessee the first place you would go to get extremely high-risk major surgery?
This article explains the process a bit better and how it helps to have money. That is, he did beat the system by shopping around, but he did not have to bribe anyone to get to the top of the list.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-got-sick-2010-04
Not True. Simply, plainly False.
How do we know which side to be on when something is labeled a "conflict mineral"?. I ask because when you stop to consider the historical context of uprisings, the governments and corporations are not always the good guys.
Would minerals (or oil) sold to support the recent Libya uprising be considered "conflict minerals" if they didn't support Khaddifi?
Or is the criterion solely "if it wasn't mined by a corporation, it must be bad"?
For example, look at the "blood diamond" issue.
Which is more ethical? Buying diamonds mined by individuals working their own land, or buying diamonds mined by De Beers?
I really do wonder if we should call BS on the whole "conflict minerals" thing. I suspect the issue exists solely for corporate profits, and it started because diamond prices were getting undercut by sales outside of the diamond cartel. There's a reason why De Beers was banned from the United States for so many decades. You gotta be pretty bad if your corporation is too evil for the USA.
Their study is a cool idea, but it looks to me like they made a hash of it. It's simply a way of locating college towns.
How did the southern half of New Mexico/Arizona get designated a single area? That segment appears to contain Phoenix. OK, I can see 500 people there playing games, but how did they expand the metro area to include half of New Mexico? I wonder if it's just the IP space of a single ISP.
BTW, that yellow area in Georgia is probably Fort Benning - an area filled with people who have free time which may be filled with interruptions.
You may have already realized from the comments that many of the respondents took what you said:
"I wondered why an elected representative couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to decide the way he or she votes."
and interpreted it as:
"I wondered why we couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to decide the whether or not a bill is passed."
I think that is a reasonable interpretation, but I doubt that's what you meant.
I'm going with the belief that you meant to say something more like :
"I wondered why an elected representative couldn't use online and in-person polling of constituents to assist with deciding the way he or she votes."
If you did mean "to decide the whether or not a bill is passed.", I have a bowl of hot grits ready for your pants.
However, I'm of the belief that more information better than less even if some (or much) of the information you get is nonsense, what I think you're proposing is a good idea. If you're thinking of simply having online polling, I would rather you did something else.
Find someone who can setup a slashdot server for your constituents.
I suggest that you control it so that you initiate the topics, decide how you want moderation done, and let us have at it.
You will learn more than you had hoped, and some of it will be useful.
You by studying the target planet. Find or create a favored group of people. Inculcate them with the idea that they deserve their position by their being a better class of people.
Make them wealthy and assist with their gaining control of the natural resources and financial system as much as is possible with local resources.
Your next step is by loaning the target planet money to purchase off-planet resources, pump up their economy so everyone is relatively satisfied and dependent.
Find someone to blame, crash the economy and step in to gain ownership of as much as possible of what's left.
If war breaks out, or insurrection, you may need to sell weapons to the various sides to regain your investments while wating to gain control.
Raise the prices of what you sell and lower the prices of what you want to buy.
You wrote it wrong. Step 1 should read:
1. "Read all the instructions first."
or
1. "Read all of the instructions before answering any questions"
or
1. "Read all the instructions before performing any actions."
and so on.
Women act more based on emotions and feelings than guys do, whereas guys will act on logic and black & white facts
Nope.
I used to think this 40 years ago, which is about when I started my IT career (with 8 years off to teach physics.)
My observation is that in general, men are much much more likely to get emotional in a business setting when there are differences of opinion. The way that they express emotion, from raised voices, blustering, filibustering to even stomping out of the room are somehow found to be socially acceptable. Men are the first to start emoting and are often the only ones. I've found that it is quite rare for a female to express emotion while in a business/professional setting and usually only after extreme provocation. On the other hand, it's almost a matter of course for men, especially those in or seeking to be management.
Is there anyone who is not aware that that raising your voice, shaking your head, pointing fingers, crossing arms etc are expressions of emotional behaviors?
The reason we give directions in terms like "drive west for .3 miles, then angle SE for another 1.7 miles before turning east" is that they're useless instructions. No one knows which way is west when they're lost. This is done so that the other male will be exhausted before you intercept him again. At that point it's easier to take his women, beer, and food (although not necesarily in that order).
I lie awake going over and over in my head what I _should_ have said, and that was it!
Thanks man! I'm gonna use this next time.
I'm hoping it will have the chat scrolling on the left side of the screen.
WooHoo! 2.5 hours of replaying old Barrens chat from the server logs.
My wife had been bugging me to throw out all those salmon I'd been keeping in the garage. "Whatever are you going to use them for?" she wanted to know. I'll show her this and then we'll know who's the clever one!
But it's OK if you're playing a live president from the 1800's
Hey thanks for reminding me. It looks updated since I installed the prerelease for Linux some months ago when it came out. It's still a pre-release, and some of us have jobs maintaining corporate environments. We want a released version.