since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal.
Wrong. If there is a set of lights for a turning lane, the 3-light stack can be: red, yellow and turn arrow. I have one of those lights on the way home from work. Right after a heavy snowfall, there is generally only a single set of tire tracks down the middle of the multi-lane road, so you can't really tell the light is for the turn lane.
So, by your definition, being required to show up for jury duty is slavery? I mean it's generally takes a day, you aren't paid a million dollars and, if you don't show up, you can be fined or go to prison. You also can't do what you want in the courtroom or the judge can lock you up for contempt.
Of course, in either case, no one will chain you up, beat you, sell you or even hang you. Hmmm... I guess you might need to rethink your comparison to slavery.
I have rolled out Snow Leopard on multiple machines of assorted vintage and consider myself well-versed in Apple tech support issues and I've not even heard a whisper of the issues you have mentioned.
Not trying to troll, but this is a pretty big thing to miss if you consider yourself well-versed in Apple tech support. I mean, it made the front page on Slashdot.
Right, and if they were actually concentrating 100% then there wouldn't ever be any accidents. As there are accidents, we can conclude that sometimes reality catches up with people.
This is a false dichotomy. You are claiming that an accident can never occur when someone is concentrating 100%. However, this completely ignores the unknown or unexpected happening; or the known, but unavoidable; or a misjudgment or miscalculation.
By the way, with the current orbital decay, the expected lifetime of the orbits is somewhere in the 20 to 40 million year range [arxiv.org] - it seems unlikely that we just happen to catch Phobos at its end-of-life, which has raised speculation about its decay being time variable
Why is it unlikely? That longer time period represents almost 1% of the lifetime of the entire solar system, (so far). Sure, 40 million years is considered short on a cosmic scale, but don't forget the fact that it is still a LONG period of time, and a lot of stuff can happen. In fact, with all of the moons observable from Earth, it would be surprising if nothing exciting was happening during that kind of time period.
Actually, they usually issue the ticket at the time of the offense. In this case, it isn't double jeopardy because you have broken two laws. The first is the law for failing to signaling, which carries with it a fine. The second is the law for DUI, which generally has some immediate consequences, such as a suspended license, but also goes to trial.
However, if they didn't issue the ticket until after the trial for DUI it would probably be thrown out since it would look like selective prosecution. i.e. - They only issued it because they are pissed off you didn't get found guilty.
If you do as little as attend a few Sunday School classes, you will quickly find out that God making man in his own image means that he made him ORIGNALLY perfect and holy.
Yes, because there is no chance that the modern Sunday School interpretation could be the wrong one.
How much bandwidth is needed for the connection on a per-machine basis? Asked another way - if I had 10 machines that I wanted to use this approach on, how fast of a connection would I need? At what levels of latency do problems start?
Of course, this wouldn't prevent someone from sneaking in somehow, but that's a far more remote danger than some hacker on the internet (who could be anywhere in the world, and probably not anywhere near your power plant) gaining access.
Unfortunately, that means if someone gets physical access to a remote station there's nothing you can do about it - except having someone drive out to the station and manually figure out what's gone wrong, and then try to fix the situation. I know of at least one dam that is an hour or so away from anyone who could show up and fix any problems. So, if someone were to break in, they could open the gates for at least an hour before anyone could show up and close them. Assuming it didn't take a lot of time for someone to actually notify them the gates were open.
Unfortunately, there is only a finite amount of money that can be spent on these systems. So, if they spend more money securing the control systems, there is something else in the system getting its corners cut.
Do I think securing the control system is important? Yes. Do I think it's the most important aspect of the system? I don't know - it depends on the system. If skimping on security means a company can get $GADGET into one more hospital, or wherever, then maybe it'll save more lives by being there than lives are lost by having the system go down because the control system isn't secured. It could even mean less downtime if remote administration means shorter outages in the course of regular use.
However, if they are skimping on security because they want to pad the bottom line then I wish explosive diarrhea on them.
Unfortunately, the idea of vetting everything doesn't work.
To be sure no one is doing anything wrong, every ad will have to be vetted. Do you have any idea how long that would take? It would increase the overhead so much that no one would advertise. "That would be great", you say? Unfortunately, you're going to have ad providers that will decide to go after those ad dollars by offering a "no-vet" plan. Which will be jumped on by the advertisers since it would be vastly cheaper. Then websites that want more revenue so they can keep operating, (there are a lot of sites that are ad supported), decide to allow the "no-vet" ads - which is a reasonable decision since they would go out of business otherwise. (Hey, I'd love it if there wasn't bad stuff on the Internet, but I'm also not going to ask someone to give up their job over some b*st*rd trying to f*ck them over with malware ads.) Then, the major sites realize profitability has gone into the toilet, and see that they need to accept "no-vet" ads, and we're back where we started.
The only place I can really see vetted ads working is in a specialty environment like kids entertainment. Since, if a bad ad gets shown, the negative press from it could put you out of business. But, even there, it would be better to limit yourself to ads from major companies like Disney, Nickelodeon or Toys'R'Us which has a lot to lose from a malware filled ad.
There are bad people in the world that are going to take advantage of the system. It sucks, but that's the way it is. I'm not saying don't go after them and prosecute them when you can; but you have to accept that they will always be there.
How about if you are attempting emergency repairs during a tropical storm? Or a construction site in general? PEOPLE get hit/run over in those situations, so it's not unlikely that a laptop could encounter that situation.
Also, how about if you leave the laptop on the end gate of a 5-ton truck? The driver hops in to move the truck and never even notices the laptop, or that the end gate is down. Even if THEY don't run it over, someone else might.
Now, to be fair - I don't think any of those scenarios are LIKELY - just possible. Besides, one of the reasons you buy a Toughbook is you bring it to places where Bad Things are far more likely to happen to it than if it were in a cubical.
I'm not all knowledgeable about GPL, but as I see it, GPL's rules are for the intention of generating more code. "Take this, do something different with it, let us see it." It can be viewed as a noble intention. Apple is trying to prevent this for other reasons (not known to me).
Noble intentions have nothing to do with copyright or even laws in general.
In fact, they had to pass Good Samaritan laws so someone attempting to save your life isn't responsible if they hurt you in the process. (That would seem like the ultimate "good intention".) Even then, there are specific rules that have to be followed. For example, if someone is choking you are required to ask if you can help them, and receive their consent, before attempting the Heimlich maneuver. If you don't ask - you are libel. (Side note: If they are unconscious, consent is implied.)
The Homeless man has no contract and no 1099 form, so he could earn a million dollars in cash and the government would not even know it, unless he reported it. But I doubt many homeless men earn more than $300 a day.
Fixed that for you.
While solid data is hard to come by, it's estimated that $20-50 a day is average for panhandling, with some people making $300+ a day. (One couple claimed $800 in a single day.)
Iowa State University offers a Masters degree in Information Assurance. Some of their offered classes are: Information Warfare, Cryptography and Forensics.
No offense, but from a privacy perspective there is nothing "less bad" about seeing "just" the contents of old mailboxes.
If I have nude photos, love letters, an email from porn-porn-porn.com, or just something I don't want someone else to read in my old mailboxes, how is someone else being able to see them not horribly bad even if they are over 90 days, (or whatever), old?
I went to the ACM finals in 2000 as a backup team member/assistant coach and, after talking to people from various teams, I think there are 2 important reasons for their success.
First, they are far more organized in their training than those in the US. Daily programming problems, marathon sessions on the weekend, that sort of thing.
Second, they are able to get course credit for participating. While you might pull a few independent study credits at a major US college, you aren't going to replace an entire semester worth of credit through training for a programming competition. I'm not trying to say getting credit for the competition is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm just pointing out that not having to spend 6-10 hours a week studying econ or psychology does free up some extra time.
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since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal.
Wrong. If there is a set of lights for a turning lane, the 3-light stack can be: red, yellow and turn arrow. I have one of those lights on the way home from work. Right after a heavy snowfall, there is generally only a single set of tire tracks down the middle of the multi-lane road, so you can't really tell the light is for the turn lane.
So, by your definition, being required to show up for jury duty is slavery? I mean it's generally takes a day, you aren't paid a million dollars and, if you don't show up, you can be fined or go to prison. You also can't do what you want in the courtroom or the judge can lock you up for contempt.
Of course, in either case, no one will chain you up, beat you, sell you or even hang you. Hmmm... I guess you might need to rethink your comparison to slavery.
I have not heard of the user account deletion on guest login - are you sure you didn't mess with UIDs?
It was discussed on Slashdot: Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data
I have rolled out Snow Leopard on multiple machines of assorted vintage and consider myself well-versed in Apple tech support issues and I've not even heard a whisper of the issues you have mentioned.
Not trying to troll, but this is a pretty big thing to miss if you consider yourself well-versed in Apple tech support. I mean, it made the front page on Slashdot.
Well, you saw what happened to the Wicked Witch of the East. She was working alone.
Right, and if they were actually concentrating 100% then there wouldn't ever be any accidents. As there are accidents, we can conclude that sometimes reality catches up with people.
This is a false dichotomy. You are claiming that an accident can never occur when someone is concentrating 100%. However, this completely ignores the unknown or unexpected happening; or the known, but unavoidable; or a misjudgment or miscalculation.
By the way, with the current orbital decay, the expected lifetime of the orbits is somewhere in the 20 to 40 million year range [arxiv.org] - it seems unlikely that we just happen to catch Phobos at its end-of-life, which has raised speculation about its decay being time variable
Why is it unlikely? That longer time period represents almost 1% of the lifetime of the entire solar system, (so far). Sure, 40 million years is considered short on a cosmic scale, but don't forget the fact that it is still a LONG period of time, and a lot of stuff can happen. In fact, with all of the moons observable from Earth, it would be surprising if nothing exciting was happening during that kind of time period.
Actually, they usually issue the ticket at the time of the offense. In this case, it isn't double jeopardy because you have broken two laws. The first is the law for failing to signaling, which carries with it a fine. The second is the law for DUI, which generally has some immediate consequences, such as a suspended license, but also goes to trial.
However, if they didn't issue the ticket until after the trial for DUI it would probably be thrown out since it would look like selective prosecution. i.e. - They only issued it because they are pissed off you didn't get found guilty.
I personally cut about 80% of the computer screen beeps. And I cut every one of them just for you guys, because I know you love them so much
Thank you. We appreciate it.
If you do as little as attend a few Sunday School classes, you will quickly find out that God making man in his own image means that he made him ORIGNALLY perfect and holy.
Yes, because there is no chance that the modern Sunday School interpretation could be the wrong one.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
How much bandwidth is needed for the connection on a per-machine basis? Asked another way - if I had 10 machines that I wanted to use this approach on, how fast of a connection would I need? At what levels of latency do problems start?
You make a reference to the article, but I don't think you really read it. From TFA:
The United States now has about 2,200 nuclear warheads and the Russians 2,800.
So your TWENTY is off by a factor of FOUR.
Of course, this wouldn't prevent someone from sneaking in somehow, but that's a far more remote danger than some hacker on the internet (who could be anywhere in the world, and probably not anywhere near your power plant) gaining access.
Unfortunately, that means if someone gets physical access to a remote station there's nothing you can do about it - except having someone drive out to the station and manually figure out what's gone wrong, and then try to fix the situation. I know of at least one dam that is an hour or so away from anyone who could show up and fix any problems. So, if someone were to break in, they could open the gates for at least an hour before anyone could show up and close them. Assuming it didn't take a lot of time for someone to actually notify them the gates were open.
Unfortunately, there is only a finite amount of money that can be spent on these systems. So, if they spend more money securing the control systems, there is something else in the system getting its corners cut.
Do I think securing the control system is important? Yes. Do I think it's the most important aspect of the system? I don't know - it depends on the system. If skimping on security means a company can get $GADGET into one more hospital, or wherever, then maybe it'll save more lives by being there than lives are lost by having the system go down because the control system isn't secured. It could even mean less downtime if remote administration means shorter outages in the course of regular use.
However, if they are skimping on security because they want to pad the bottom line then I wish explosive diarrhea on them.
Unfortunately, the idea of vetting everything doesn't work.
To be sure no one is doing anything wrong, every ad will have to be vetted. Do you have any idea how long that would take? It would increase the overhead so much that no one would advertise. "That would be great", you say? Unfortunately, you're going to have ad providers that will decide to go after those ad dollars by offering a "no-vet" plan. Which will be jumped on by the advertisers since it would be vastly cheaper. Then websites that want more revenue so they can keep operating, (there are a lot of sites that are ad supported), decide to allow the "no-vet" ads - which is a reasonable decision since they would go out of business otherwise. (Hey, I'd love it if there wasn't bad stuff on the Internet, but I'm also not going to ask someone to give up their job over some b*st*rd trying to f*ck them over with malware ads.) Then, the major sites realize profitability has gone into the toilet, and see that they need to accept "no-vet" ads, and we're back where we started.
The only place I can really see vetted ads working is in a specialty environment like kids entertainment. Since, if a bad ad gets shown, the negative press from it could put you out of business. But, even there, it would be better to limit yourself to ads from major companies like Disney, Nickelodeon or Toys'R'Us which has a lot to lose from a malware filled ad.
There are bad people in the world that are going to take advantage of the system. It sucks, but that's the way it is. I'm not saying don't go after them and prosecute them when you can; but you have to accept that they will always be there.
You are assuming a relatively calm environment.
How about if you are attempting emergency repairs during a tropical storm? Or a construction site in general? PEOPLE get hit/run over in those situations, so it's not unlikely that a laptop could encounter that situation.
Also, how about if you leave the laptop on the end gate of a 5-ton truck? The driver hops in to move the truck and never even notices the laptop, or that the end gate is down. Even if THEY don't run it over, someone else might.
Now, to be fair - I don't think any of those scenarios are LIKELY - just possible. Besides, one of the reasons you buy a Toughbook is you bring it to places where Bad Things are far more likely to happen to it than if it were in a cubical.
I'm not all knowledgeable about GPL, but as I see it, GPL's rules are for the intention of generating more code. "Take this, do something different with it, let us see it." It can be viewed as a noble intention. Apple is trying to prevent this for other reasons (not known to me).
Noble intentions have nothing to do with copyright or even laws in general.
In fact, they had to pass Good Samaritan laws so someone attempting to save your life isn't responsible if they hurt you in the process. (That would seem like the ultimate "good intention".) Even then, there are specific rules that have to be followed. For example, if someone is choking you are required to ask if you can help them, and receive their consent, before attempting the Heimlich maneuver. If you don't ask - you are libel. (Side note: If they are unconscious, consent is implied.)
Encryption requires the extra step of going to the hardware store and buying a $5 wrench.
Weight training does help with bone density but not as much as workouts that jar the body in some way. (Running, basketball, racquetball, etc.)
The Homeless man has no contract and no 1099 form, so he could earn a million dollars in cash and the government would not even know it, unless he reported it. But I doubt many homeless men earn more than $300 a day.
Fixed that for you.
While solid data is hard to come by, it's estimated that $20-50 a day is average for panhandling, with some people making $300+ a day. (One couple claimed $800 in a single day.)
Iowa State University offers a Masters degree in Information Assurance. Some of their offered classes are: Information Warfare, Cryptography and Forensics.
No offense, but from a privacy perspective there is nothing "less bad" about seeing "just" the contents of old mailboxes.
If I have nude photos, love letters, an email from porn-porn-porn.com, or just something I don't want someone else to read in my old mailboxes, how is someone else being able to see them not horribly bad even if they are over 90 days, (or whatever), old?
I went to the ACM finals in 2000 as a backup team member/assistant coach and, after talking to people from various teams, I think there are 2 important reasons for their success.
That's not fair. Krugman predicted 11 of the last 3 recessions.
You should be more careful. Mixing binary and decimal notation can really confuse some people.
A rule applying to a single product like light bulbs doesn't imply universality, even if the product is ubiquitous.