Possibly, but in real life there are complications. What if your replacement keyboard isn't worn in exactly the same was as the original? Will the victim notice that his J key doesn't have that little fleck of paint missing, or that he smooth spot on his keyboard is gone? Or will he notice that his keyboard is sitting funny because it didn't snap back in properly? Like most things, the devil is in the details.
The point is that the encryption software itself is not encrypted (or is self-encrypted with it's own key, which is pointless), and you can replace it with a trojaned version, presumably by booting off of USB stick or CD or something and installing your hacked version. That said, the BIOS password would actually be a pretty strong deterrent here, since even if they do reset it, you're going to notice when you come back and your BIOS password is not set. This attack pretty much relies on you not noticing the compromise and start using your machine normally (entering passwords, etc...)
Note that this attack doesn't work against the most common case: someone stealing your laptop, since it requires you to operate the machine thinking it is uncompromised. This is for the super-paranoid who think (or maybe HAVE) a government out to get them.
Of course, as other people have pointed out, if someone has extended physical access to your machine, all bets are off. You could have a dozen different hardware keyloggers, a trojaned HDD, automatic hardware screen capture, hidden webcam, anything really up to your level of paranoia.
The lag is going to be murder once they get a good distance to Mars.
It should be noted that NASA has long had a problem with the reality of space flight vs. their selection process. Their astronaut selection process tends to weed out all but the most motivated adventurous go-getters who tend to go crazy when asked to do basically nothing for 6 months.
10G-E copper is coming, the reason you don't see it yet is because computers are only now becoming fast enough to really use 10G-E, although it takes pretty much all of the available resources to saturate a 10G-E link now, the rest of the machine can only barely keep up, and only if it doesn't do much of anything with the data (certainly don't want to hit the disk for instance). There's just no market for it yet on the PC side, and thus the need for inexpensive copper interconnects just isn't strong enough yet. Give it a couple of years and we'll start seeing copper 10G-E ports as an option on high end server boards, followed by a standard feature on server boards, and finally trickling down to the enthusiast market and beyond.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer
This quote also applies to TCP/IP. 31 million is not enough money for someone like Lockheed to do anything notable except maybe come up with some router policies and require SSL on every link or something. They probably wouldn't even be able to properly tackle the interminable key distribution problems with a system like that.
I'd argue that albums where every song is solid is the exception, not the norm. In fact it's pretty rare. There are some famous albmus where everything was good, but far, far more where there are a couple of good songs at the front, a bunch of filler in the middle, then one good song at the end.
Your worldview likely differs from the author's though. You may not view something like a comment that you implemented an algorithm in an inefficient way as sexist, but the authors of this study might. I've noticed that with people who have a chip on their shoulder about something, they can read sexism/racism/etc... into just about anything.
Exactly, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog (or a girl!). If there is some sort of glass ceiling on FOSS projects, then I don't see how it is supposed to work. Maybe the sexism is that girls don't want to work with creepy nerds and "creepy nerd" is pretty much the stereotype for FOSS developers?
Worse, it could result in a lot of poorly thought out FBI policies that make doing stuff online a pain and do nothing to slow down the pishing. Heck, look at what the government did with airport security.
People who would likely sue the pants off of the company if the pulled out of the huge and profitable Chinese market.
That's quite the choice for a CEO. Get a massive fine from the US government, or get blocked by the great firewall of china and then sued by the shareholders, possibly ousted from the company.
I've had the opposite experience with those BIOS memory tests. I've never, ever had one find anything wrong, even on a system that had quite bad memory. OTOH, Memtest86 wasn't able to find any problem with the sticks either, but the instant you started a program that blitted a lot of data to the screen the system would crash. Screensavers for instance never lasted more than a couple of minutes. Replacing the memory eventually solved the problem, but it took a long time to track down the problem.
Carrier Grade NAT is hardly without its troubles either. Now the people calling to complain are the ones who are trying to play online games and failing because they're trapped behind a NAT system they don't control.
Nothing says they can't charge for every IPv6 address as well. In fact I fully expect them to. No, the reluctance to change is simply because there is still a ton of legacy equipment everywhere that is not IPv6 enabled, or worse, is misconfigured on the IPv6 side. Do you want to try to explain to some large percentage of old and retired people on your network why suddenly they aren't able to get to aarp.org because aarp's ISP misconfigured the IPv6 setup on some of their equipment?
People are going slow on this because it's scary. The early adopters are going to be burned. If it's bad enough, companies might collapse. And yet it's the good and necessary solution, the only one that makes sense in the long run. Everybody is working as best they can behind the scenes to try to make sure that their own stuff will work, but nobody wants to flip the switch and see just how bad it might be.
Steam is not magical, they're like any store. They have on average better prices than Brick and Mortar places, but if your local game store has a sale on some particular game or they're just trying to clear out their backstock then it wouldn't be hard for them to beat Steam.
I'm confused about this point, and it has come up several times now. Menus are grouped logically based on the actions as well, that is not unique to ribbon. In fact that's the whole point of a menu, to keep stuff organized and easy to find.
The thing that drives me nuts about Office 2007's menu is that I'll use a function on something, then move to a different part of the document and discover that the function I just used is gone, even though it would still be valid. Then I'm forced to flip through the various ribbon tabs to find the function on a different ribbon that looks different and has slightly different options (oh, this one has blue and grey instead of blue and pink for some reason). It drives me nuts. I'm forever hunting around on the stupid ribbon for wherever the function I want wandered off to.
It's also useful for biodiversity. We don't want the Pneumonia bugs dying off just because people stopped doing things like running 20 miles in the freezing rain.
I thought the point of cursive was that it was faster when writing with a quill. The tradeoff is that it was always more difficult to read, especially when done quickly.
The scuttlebutt I've heard is that the new Batman game is especially hard on old PS3s. It's a bigger problem than it would have been because the game is popular and good so a lot of people have been playing it heavily, ultimately to the demise of their PS3.
I have an 800MB HDD that still works, and up until a couple of years ago was in constant use. It was only retired because the old workhorse of a machine it was in was finally replaced. That said, I have also worked with big farms of disks and know that failures happen, and the hard drive is the second least reliable part of most computers after the fans. Anything with moving parts is going to eventually fail, there's no way around it.
"Picking up" is a pretty nebulous term with the garbage patch tough, most of the plastic in it is less than a mm in diameter. You would have to work out some sort of filtration system that didn't suck up too much sea life (plankton!) in the process.
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Possibly, but in real life there are complications. What if your replacement keyboard isn't worn in exactly the same was as the original? Will the victim notice that his J key doesn't have that little fleck of paint missing, or that he smooth spot on his keyboard is gone? Or will he notice that his keyboard is sitting funny because it didn't snap back in properly? Like most things, the devil is in the details.
The point is that the encryption software itself is not encrypted (or is self-encrypted with it's own key, which is pointless), and you can replace it with a trojaned version, presumably by booting off of USB stick or CD or something and installing your hacked version. That said, the BIOS password would actually be a pretty strong deterrent here, since even if they do reset it, you're going to notice when you come back and your BIOS password is not set. This attack pretty much relies on you not noticing the compromise and start using your machine normally (entering passwords, etc...)
Note that this attack doesn't work against the most common case: someone stealing your laptop, since it requires you to operate the machine thinking it is uncompromised. This is for the super-paranoid who think (or maybe HAVE) a government out to get them.
Of course, as other people have pointed out, if someone has extended physical access to your machine, all bets are off. You could have a dozen different hardware keyloggers, a trojaned HDD, automatic hardware screen capture, hidden webcam, anything really up to your level of paranoia.
Time Warner has pissed me off. I need you to vote your senator out of office! Wait, his replacement would be exactly the same? Then vote him out too!
The lag is going to be murder once they get a good distance to Mars.
It should be noted that NASA has long had a problem with the reality of space flight vs. their selection process. Their astronaut selection process tends to weed out all but the most motivated adventurous go-getters who tend to go crazy when asked to do basically nothing for 6 months.
10G-E copper is coming, the reason you don't see it yet is because computers are only now becoming fast enough to really use 10G-E, although it takes pretty much all of the available resources to saturate a 10G-E link now, the rest of the machine can only barely keep up, and only if it doesn't do much of anything with the data (certainly don't want to hit the disk for instance). There's just no market for it yet on the PC side, and thus the need for inexpensive copper interconnects just isn't strong enough yet. Give it a couple of years and we'll start seeing copper 10G-E ports as an option on high end server boards, followed by a standard feature on server boards, and finally trickling down to the enthusiast market and beyond.
This quote also applies to TCP/IP. 31 million is not enough money for someone like Lockheed to do anything notable except maybe come up with some router policies and require SSL on every link or something. They probably wouldn't even be able to properly tackle the interminable key distribution problems with a system like that.
I'd argue that albums where every song is solid is the exception, not the norm. In fact it's pretty rare. There are some famous albmus where everything was good, but far, far more where there are a couple of good songs at the front, a bunch of filler in the middle, then one good song at the end.
She also painted Mr. Burns in the buff, so she can't be that prudish.
Your worldview likely differs from the author's though. You may not view something like a comment that you implemented an algorithm in an inefficient way as sexist, but the authors of this study might. I've noticed that with people who have a chip on their shoulder about something, they can read sexism/racism/etc... into just about anything.
Exactly, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog (or a girl!). If there is some sort of glass ceiling on FOSS projects, then I don't see how it is supposed to work. Maybe the sexism is that girls don't want to work with creepy nerds and "creepy nerd" is pretty much the stereotype for FOSS developers?
Worse, it could result in a lot of poorly thought out FBI policies that make doing stuff online a pain and do nothing to slow down the pishing. Heck, look at what the government did with airport security.
People who would likely sue the pants off of the company if the pulled out of the huge and profitable Chinese market.
That's quite the choice for a CEO. Get a massive fine from the US government, or get blocked by the great firewall of china and then sued by the shareholders, possibly ousted from the company.
Or you could just buy ECC Memory and not destroy your memory bandwidth.
I've had the opposite experience with those BIOS memory tests. I've never, ever had one find anything wrong, even on a system that had quite bad memory. OTOH, Memtest86 wasn't able to find any problem with the sticks either, but the instant you started a program that blitted a lot of data to the screen the system would crash. Screensavers for instance never lasted more than a couple of minutes. Replacing the memory eventually solved the problem, but it took a long time to track down the problem.
Dude, I think it's about time to let go of your DOS 4.01 system and upgrade.
Carrier Grade NAT is hardly without its troubles either. Now the people calling to complain are the ones who are trying to play online games and failing because they're trapped behind a NAT system they don't control.
Nothing says they can't charge for every IPv6 address as well. In fact I fully expect them to. No, the reluctance to change is simply because there is still a ton of legacy equipment everywhere that is not IPv6 enabled, or worse, is misconfigured on the IPv6 side. Do you want to try to explain to some large percentage of old and retired people on your network why suddenly they aren't able to get to aarp.org because aarp's ISP misconfigured the IPv6 setup on some of their equipment?
People are going slow on this because it's scary. The early adopters are going to be burned. If it's bad enough, companies might collapse. And yet it's the good and necessary solution, the only one that makes sense in the long run. Everybody is working as best they can behind the scenes to try to make sure that their own stuff will work, but nobody wants to flip the switch and see just how bad it might be.
Steam is not magical, they're like any store. They have on average better prices than Brick and Mortar places, but if your local game store has a sale on some particular game or they're just trying to clear out their backstock then it wouldn't be hard for them to beat Steam.
Safer is debatable. Segways are actually pretty safe just because they don't go very fast.
I'm confused about this point, and it has come up several times now. Menus are grouped logically based on the actions as well, that is not unique to ribbon. In fact that's the whole point of a menu, to keep stuff organized and easy to find.
The thing that drives me nuts about Office 2007's menu is that I'll use a function on something, then move to a different part of the document and discover that the function I just used is gone, even though it would still be valid. Then I'm forced to flip through the various ribbon tabs to find the function on a different ribbon that looks different and has slightly different options (oh, this one has blue and grey instead of blue and pink for some reason). It drives me nuts. I'm forever hunting around on the stupid ribbon for wherever the function I want wandered off to.
It's also useful for biodiversity. We don't want the Pneumonia bugs dying off just because people stopped doing things like running 20 miles in the freezing rain.
I thought the point of cursive was that it was faster when writing with a quill . The tradeoff is that it was always more difficult to read, especially when done quickly.
The scuttlebutt I've heard is that the new Batman game is especially hard on old PS3s. It's a bigger problem than it would have been because the game is popular and good so a lot of people have been playing it heavily, ultimately to the demise of their PS3.
Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence!
I have an 800MB HDD that still works, and up until a couple of years ago was in constant use. It was only retired because the old workhorse of a machine it was in was finally replaced. That said, I have also worked with big farms of disks and know that failures happen, and the hard drive is the second least reliable part of most computers after the fans. Anything with moving parts is going to eventually fail, there's no way around it.
"Picking up" is a pretty nebulous term with the garbage patch tough, most of the plastic in it is less than a mm in diameter. You would have to work out some sort of filtration system that didn't suck up too much sea life (plankton!) in the process.