And even then they fumble nervously around with their tentacles for at least an hour before the exasperated girl finally says that she is really tired from writing her thesis and if she could be brutally violated simultaneously in all possible ways with enormous tentacles, that would really be a change of pace.
If someone has physical access, you cannot stop them from getting the data if they really want it.
You may find it difficult to explain to building security just what you were doing under the receptionist's desk with a bolt cutter, three screwdrivers of various sizes and shapes, as well as a bag full of wireless cards. They may also find it a bit odd that you chose to field-strip several of their computers instead of just waiting patiently for the meeting you were supposed to attend.
Had you been able to casually palm a USB device into an unused port then nobody would have noticed. It's a little bit more difficult to casually disassemble a keyboard without anyone seeing what you are doing.
And ignoring all the workarounds that others have mentioned for BIOS, the fact that there's often a hardcoded, manufacturer-specific default password for BIOS that lives alongside the user-specified BIOS password.
Oh, good. In that case I've got a skid full of old Thinkpads to sell you. Surely, since getting past BIOS passwords is trivial, they'll be worth a lot to you.
Better to continue gathering knowledge and refining launch vehicles until there is some pressing need to shoot people into space.
...like sending them up to the Indian space station, or visiting the Chinese moon base.
If you take the long view, Obama's plan to slow down the US space program may be the best thing for it. The most progress NASA ever made was while trying to catch up with the Russians, so trying to recreate the same circumstances might...
Nah, I've tried, but I can't really defend this move. I understand the reasoning behind it, but it looks like it's going to cause more harm than good.
It must suck to be stuck using that old dot-matix printer hanging off the Centronix parallel port.
Actually the printers are plugged in to _ethernet_ ports. On network switches, where their MAC addresses have been registered to prevent gangs of street kids from sneaking in their own bulky laser printers and connecting them to the office network because that's the kind of thing that they do now.
a null-modem cable will let me suck the data out of your box just fine
Not when the serial port has been disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS locked with an unremovable admin password. You can suck on your null-modem cable all you want, but you're not going to get anything but chapped lips.
And that serial mouse [...] That old-style keyboard plug? Hate to have to buy a new keyboard... and not be able to plug it in.
The keyboard and mouse are connected to the USB ports on the back of the case, inside the wire cage where users can't get at them. If it's a notebook computer then they're built in and don't need to plug in anywhere. People have thought of this kind of thing before, you know. It's not a new concept that just popped up today on Slashdot.
This could be almost as bad as when there were three different incompatible ways of transmitting images on the web, JPEG, GIF and PNG. Man, I remember spending years not being able to see a single picture because of that...
Without a hard drive, how does it record and play back TV, downloaded content, etc?
Perhaps they are using something radical called a "network interface". I have heard that people at MIT are doing some radical stuff with what they call "ethernet" which would allow you to access files on one computer from another one which could be hundreds of metres away.
Another approach involves writing "recorded TV, downloaded content, etc" onto flash memory itself. You don't need spinning discs for storage.
my bitch is w/ the 3000 series wireless ms keyboard and mouse. anything approaching 6' and performance just dies.
This is a problem which could be solved through the use of something called a "wire". There's no reason why your wireless receiver needs to be buried inside your computer.
As a control, pictures of people brandishing guns were also used on some participants--and they barely resulted in a significant increase in IL-6 production, signifying that IL-6 production is not simply a reaction to stress.
You could look at it that way. Or you could see that the data clearly shows that none of the subjects' had immune systems capable of protecting them from bullets.
There's no other platform in the world that can boast this level of flexibility -- not even close.
Commodore 64 emulators run on a dizzying variety of platforms, everything from Androids and iPhones up to room sized mainframes and including every single target that AIR supports. I think that means that "Archon" and "Seven Cities of Gold" boast a good deal more flexibility than "ifdefreversi" does.
Still, it's a nice try. Maybe if Adobe is still interested in multi-platform apps they can try writing a nice little 'Hello World' in Perl or learning some FORTRAN and COBOL.
Given NASA's experience with writing software that's just gotta work or else, I'd be very hard-pressed to think of no better team of programmers for the job.
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Oh, yes, Access certainly is bad enough to be compared to Blackboard.
And since the system affected was Blackboard, that rules out the possibility of it being an inside job.
Soooo... Which University do you make spending decisions at? Based on your comment I can narrow it down to a few hundred or so.
Uncle Ghastly? Is that you?
Or you could just look it up on Google images search. Think of it as Rule 34 Compliance Monitoring.
You might want to tell a few more people about that.
You may find it difficult to explain to building security just what you were doing under the receptionist's desk with a bolt cutter, three screwdrivers of various sizes and shapes, as well as a bag full of wireless cards. They may also find it a bit odd that you chose to field-strip several of their computers instead of just waiting patiently for the meeting you were supposed to attend.
Had you been able to casually palm a USB device into an unused port then nobody would have noticed. It's a little bit more difficult to casually disassemble a keyboard without anyone seeing what you are doing.
Oh, good. In that case I've got a skid full of old Thinkpads to sell you. Surely, since getting past BIOS passwords is trivial, they'll be worth a lot to you.
...like sending them up to the Indian space station, or visiting the Chinese moon base.
If you take the long view, Obama's plan to slow down the US space program may be the best thing for it. The most progress NASA ever made was while trying to catch up with the Russians, so trying to recreate the same circumstances might...
Nah, I've tried, but I can't really defend this move. I understand the reasoning behind it, but it looks like it's going to cause more harm than good.
Being nickelled wasn't all that bad, but the threat of being quartered is really starting to drive people away.
Yup, that darn NSA never tells anybody about their stuff or lets them see how it works. Nosireebob.
Actually the printers are plugged in to _ethernet_ ports. On network switches, where their MAC addresses have been registered to prevent gangs of street kids from sneaking in their own bulky laser printers and connecting them to the office network because that's the kind of thing that they do now.
Not when the serial port has been disabled in the BIOS, and the BIOS locked with an unremovable admin password. You can suck on your null-modem cable all you want, but you're not going to get anything but chapped lips.
The keyboard and mouse are connected to the USB ports on the back of the case, inside the wire cage where users can't get at them. If it's a notebook computer then they're built in and don't need to plug in anywhere. People have thought of this kind of thing before, you know. It's not a new concept that just popped up today on Slashdot.
This could be almost as bad as when there were three different incompatible ways of transmitting images on the web, JPEG, GIF and PNG. Man, I remember spending years not being able to see a single picture because of that...
But if you have read everything he wrote then you're a Dick-head.
So buy a cheap SD card and replace it next year. How is this difficult?
Perhaps they are using something radical called a "network interface". I have heard that people at MIT are doing some radical stuff with what they call "ethernet" which would allow you to access files on one computer from another one which could be hundreds of metres away.
Another approach involves writing "recorded TV, downloaded content, etc" onto flash memory itself. You don't need spinning discs for storage.
This is a problem which could be solved through the use of something called a "wire". There's no reason why your wireless receiver needs to be buried inside your computer.
That's just Verizon Math at work. As long as you're within a factor of 100 then that's close enough for Verizon.
Or will women whose legs aren't two metres long just have to wear bright orange jumpsuits?
You could look at it that way. Or you could see that the data clearly shows that none of the subjects' had immune systems capable of protecting them from bullets.
And here I thought it was Midori. Perhaps she and SteveB could discuss alternative uses for chairs or something.
Commodore 64 emulators run on a dizzying variety of platforms, everything from Androids and iPhones up to room sized mainframes and including every single target that AIR supports. I think that means that "Archon" and "Seven Cities of Gold" boast a good deal more flexibility than "ifdefreversi" does.
Still, it's a nice try. Maybe if Adobe is still interested in multi-platform apps they can try writing a nice little 'Hello World' in Perl or learning some FORTRAN and COBOL.
That's only possible if there is a permanent record made. If the image isn't published then you are _slander_ to get man boobs.
Perhaps a form of rule where 51% of the masses can decide that the other 49% would like to make some big sacrifices for the greater good, then.
And considering that the NHTSA has absolutely no experience with or personnel capable of writing or even reading software, they have to go _somewhere_.