Seems like you didn't need to take it over the IT department at all - you could have made a case to them and they could have supported you. Now you got to enjoy yourselves in the moment and possibly cost you future IT security.
What part of this didn't you understand:
I pointed out that since i was being paid nearly $70 an hour, and I'm losing a good couple of hours a day on computer slugishness, that the investment would pay itself off in about 2 days, since not having the ram was costing the company about $140 a day. No dice.
Stop trying to sound smart by changing the topic. The original commenter wrote:
Using a.xxx TLD makes it that much easier to identify and filter porn if you don't want to see it.
My response: "No, it doesn't, and here's a 7000-word, peer-reviewed article---written by people who understand how the Internet works---that explains why."
Your response: "Yeah, but, if we lived in Magical Faerie Land where the Internet didn't work that way, this would be a great idea! Also, that article is just somebody's opinion. I won't mention any specific objections to it, and I probably haven't read it except for its title."
About the security model: I know that apt works by checking an OpenPGP signature on the Release file (which contains hashes of the Packages files, which themselves contain hashes of the individual.deb files). So, effectively, the entire repository as a whole is signed---a rogue mirror can't silently drop security updates by cherry-picking insecure old versions of packages.
Do you know if yum does something similar? I remember, a few years ago, RPM signatures were at the individual package level, rather than at the repository level. Is that still the case?
1. Get rid of these notice-and-takedown laws.
2. Enact statutory liability any time this happens. That will make these folks a lot more careful about how they use the notice-and-takedown laws.
Anyone who has their freedom of speech inappropriately restricted deserves compensation from these clowns.
Debian can't even be considered secure (no less than twice they had their servers hacked)
You realize that the whole Debian archive is signed, and those signatures are checked by apt-get, right? When did malicious code ever make it into the (signed) archive?
If you monitor the complete surroundings, then you are monitoring the output of these devices. Any kind of noise that is unpredictable to your attacker will work; it doesn't need to be OMG QUANTUM!
Please define what you mean by "on the hook", and "hijack". Debt (especially bond debt) is just an agreement to rent someone else's money at a specified price for a specified time. There are no additional obligations.
No, not really. I mean, in a trivial sense, yes, it runs a Linux kernel, and there's something like BusyBox on it, but the userspace is a different, non-Unix, pseudoJava-based platform. Most of the other stuff we expect on a "Linux" system is missing. To use RMS's terminology, it runs Linux, but not GNU/Linux.
I agree with the sentiment expressed in the submission: I'd rather have a GNU/Linux system than an Android/Linux system.
M$ is a tribute to BASIC, where variables originally could be only one or two letters, followed by a type specifier (except for floating-point numbers).
Roslyn is a complete reengineering of Microsoft's.NET compiler toolchain in a new way, such that each phase of the code compilation process is exposed as a service that can be consumed by other applications,
communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus
Every platform? Really? Since when does a proprietary protocol implemented by proprietary software constitute a commitment to interoperability across every platform?
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Seems like you didn't need to take it over the IT department at all - you could have made a case to them and they could have supported you. Now you got to enjoy yourselves in the moment and possibly cost you future IT security.
What part of this didn't you understand:
I pointed out that since i was being paid nearly $70 an hour, and I'm losing a good couple of hours a day on computer slugishness, that the investment would pay itself off in about 2 days, since not having the ram was costing the company about $140 a day. No dice.
Using a .xxx TLD makes it that much easier to identify and filter porn if you don't want to see it.
My response: "No, it doesn't, and here's a 7000-word, peer-reviewed article---written by people who understand how the Internet works---that explains why."
Your response: "Yeah, but, if we lived in Magical Faerie Land where the Internet didn't work that way, this would be a great idea! Also, that article is just somebody's opinion. I won't mention any specific objections to it, and I probably haven't read it except for its title."
Using a .xxx TLD makes it that much easier to identify and filter porn if you don't want to see it.
RFC 3675 disagrees with you.
About the security model: I know that apt works by checking an OpenPGP signature on the Release file (which contains hashes of the Packages files, which themselves contain hashes of the individual .deb files). So, effectively, the entire repository as a whole is signed---a rogue mirror can't silently drop security updates by cherry-picking insecure old versions of packages.
Do you know if yum does something similar? I remember, a few years ago, RPM signatures were at the individual package level, rather than at the repository level. Is that still the case?
1. Get rid of these notice-and-takedown laws.
2. Enact statutory liability any time this happens. That will make these folks a lot more careful about how they use the notice-and-takedown laws.
Anyone who has their freedom of speech inappropriately restricted deserves compensation from these clowns.
Where is rpmbuild documented?
Debian can't even be considered secure (no less than twice they had their servers hacked)
You realize that the whole Debian archive is signed, and those signatures are checked by apt-get, right? When did malicious code ever make it into the (signed) archive?
Don't breathe that!
Needs ... some way to maintain uniform fog distribution in a room.
Or a way to measure the fog distribution in real time and adjust accordingly.
If you monitor the complete surroundings, then you are monitoring the output of these devices. Any kind of noise that is unpredictable to your attacker will work; it doesn't need to be OMG QUANTUM!
You mean there isn't some sort of cosmic DRM that prevents this?
If you want to measure something, then don’t measure other shit.
Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this
I wouldn't let them off the hook so easily. They have lots and lots of influence.
Don't you?
There are, like, 3 people who do that.
Please define what you mean by "on the hook", and "hijack". Debt (especially bond debt) is just an agreement to rent someone else's money at a specified price for a specified time. There are no additional obligations.
Android is Linux.
No, not really. I mean, in a trivial sense, yes, it runs a Linux kernel, and there's something like BusyBox on it, but the userspace is a different, non-Unix, pseudoJava-based platform. Most of the other stuff we expect on a "Linux" system is missing. To use RMS's terminology, it runs Linux, but not GNU/Linux.
I agree with the sentiment expressed in the submission: I'd rather have a GNU/Linux system than an Android/Linux system.
M$ is a tribute to BASIC, where variables originally could be only one or two letters, followed by a type specifier (except for floating-point numbers).
"Software patents will prevent you from doing anything *really* cool anyway."
XML security is stupid. Peter Gutmann explained why way back in 2004.
Increased prevalence of zombies is also one speculated cause of colony collapse disorder.
Roslyn is a complete reengineering of Microsoft's .NET compiler toolchain in a new way, such that each phase of the code compilation process is exposed as a service that can be consumed by other applications,
Sounds like LLVM.
Huh? There's no reason why an FPGA design can't use DRAM or implement caching.
The best guess I've seen so far (admittedly, it was just speculation) was that the difference might be due to variable timing delays introduced by the FPGA-based data acquisition system.
communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus
Every platform? Really? Since when does a proprietary protocol implemented by proprietary software constitute a commitment to interoperability across every platform?