What if you made the passphrase answer a statement that you were guilty of doing something? Then, since you can't be forced to testify against yourself, you can't divulge the passphrase since it is itself self-incriminatory.
I'm guessing that your local community probably has some needs for your skills, whether its an elementary school, charity organization, adult education program, etc....You'd be surprised how many people are held back by their lack of basic computer skills Slashdotters think they were born with.
I share your same desire to be able to donate my skills to humanitarian organizations in need (I can't build a house with my hands, but I can sure set up networks, workstations, infrastructure, etc), but many people in the world need basic services like toilets a lot more than they need electronics.
A few options for backup (I used all of these for my collection):
* Buy a bunch of USB external HD's, put the movies on them, and send them off to various members of your family (they'll love to have them too)! * Upload everything to a Private YouTube account, then give your family access to them * Backup to a Hard Drive, and place it offsite * Carbonite or Dropbox
I just got a firm foam anti static floor mat for my workstation, and it is the greatest money I have ever spent. Even standing for 20 minutes is greatly improved by something a little squishy under my feet.
If any person might be standing in some spot, put one on the floor.
As for software and digital copies of stuff, buy a big honkin NAS device and store everything in ONE PLACE. Just the fact that its on the same physical machine eliminates people's need to search anywhere else.
The concept of using ADS-B to spoof position reporting doesn't hold water, since there are backup systems (Mode C/S xpdr)...though it may trigger a traffic alert on a neighbor's TCAS if it only relies on ADS-B reports (which it shouldn't). You can't control anything with just ADS-B spoofing.
Hacking the FMS via something like vulnerability in the ACARS receive stack....ok that might be in the realm of possibility. Except its not very useful, because any deviation of course or altitude would be detected by the pilots and ATC nearly immediately. Redundancy is built in at the human level.
I ran a similar test like this when I was having performance troubles with one of my QA apps.
I had written it in C# because I was bored and wanted to explore the language a little bit. I ran into issues with threading and performance when ramping up TCP connections and data processing.
I did a line-by-line rewrite into C++ (seriously, I copied the source and translated each line)....and all my performance problems went away.
In my experience, both Java and C# are easy to write, but abysmal when it comes to performance.
"Academics come first hands down so male/female ratio and party scene aren't too important."
Part of college is to have fun, because once you are older, you're not "allowed" to be irresponsible like you were in your college days. I studied engineering, and looking back, I wish I had been to more parties and met more people.
When you start interviewing for jobs, you need to be able to hold a conversation, be interesting, talk about different things, and generally be a likable person. An active social life will help you with that.
Life isn't all about academics - enjoy it a little.
I have a WNDR3300 running dd-wrt and an Asus WL-520GU as a print server. I am not impressed with the range of the 5GHz WNDR3300 in N mode. In a room where I receive decent G coverage, I get almost no N coverage. My old router used to reach up to the third floor, but the Netgear fails to do so (hence the Asus as a print server and G repeater).
DD-WRT, however, is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I remember manually editing IPTABLES back in the day to make my computer be a router, and I never thought I'd see it on something so embedded and cheap.
I actually think we in the Boston area are better drivers than the rest of the country, mostly because of the idiots we have to deal with on a daily basis here. Sort of like training Olympians, and then going to play the local high school team.
Diamond Star DA40 will pull 160 safely on a calm day. Not too expensive at $330K.
Although I do my flying in New England during the summer, so the air tends to be too rough for anything fancy like that. I've never seen more continuous days of chop and 85 degree weather than I have this year.
I wouldn't fly my Cessna above 160kias under any circumstances. Though I do admit I hit 140 trying watch a Citation turn an insanely tight final which he called for.
If you are making quick short hops (under 400 miles), a pilot's license is totally worth it. Even if you are paying for a rental to sit idle for a day, its sometimes cheaper than flying on the airlines. Very few delays, a better view, and you can cruise (160kts) at about 60% the speed of a turboprop.
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What if you made the passphrase answer a statement that you were guilty of doing something? Then, since you can't be forced to testify against yourself, you can't divulge the passphrase since it is itself self-incriminatory.
I should have gone to law school.
Your "3 metre resident of Warsaw" made my day. Thank you for bringing joy to my otherwise dull life.
I'm guessing that your local community probably has some needs for your skills, whether its an elementary school, charity organization, adult education program, etc....You'd be surprised how many people are held back by their lack of basic computer skills Slashdotters think they were born with.
I share your same desire to be able to donate my skills to humanitarian organizations in need (I can't build a house with my hands, but I can sure set up networks, workstations, infrastructure, etc), but many people in the world need basic services like toilets a lot more than they need electronics.
A few options for backup (I used all of these for my collection):
* Buy a bunch of USB external HD's, put the movies on them, and send them off to various members of your family (they'll love to have them too)!
* Upload everything to a Private YouTube account, then give your family access to them
* Backup to a Hard Drive, and place it offsite
* Carbonite or Dropbox
I just got a firm foam anti static floor mat for my workstation, and it is the greatest money I have ever spent. Even standing for 20 minutes is greatly improved by something a little squishy under my feet.
If any person might be standing in some spot, put one on the floor.
As for software and digital copies of stuff, buy a big honkin NAS device and store everything in ONE PLACE. Just the fact that its on the same physical machine eliminates people's need to search anywhere else.
IAAP
The concept of using ADS-B to spoof position reporting doesn't hold water, since there are backup systems (Mode C/S xpdr)...though it may trigger a traffic alert on a neighbor's TCAS if it only relies on ADS-B reports (which it shouldn't). You can't control anything with just ADS-B spoofing.
Hacking the FMS via something like vulnerability in the ACARS receive stack....ok that might be in the realm of possibility. Except its not very useful, because any deviation of course or altitude would be detected by the pilots and ATC nearly immediately. Redundancy is built in at the human level.
I ran a similar test like this when I was having performance troubles with one of my QA apps.
I had written it in C# because I was bored and wanted to explore the language a little bit. I ran into issues with threading and performance when ramping up TCP connections and data processing.
I did a line-by-line rewrite into C++ (seriously, I copied the source and translated each line)....and all my performance problems went away.
In my experience, both Java and C# are easy to write, but abysmal when it comes to performance.
nah, the crude humor is that all the flights in the game are on-time, and you get a meal + beverage for free
go buy 2 or 3 cheap 8-10TB NAS devices
cycle one of them through every few months for a backup, and then store it at another physical location
that will run you less than $3000 total and a lot fewer headaches
"Academics come first hands down so male/female ratio and party scene aren't too important."
Part of college is to have fun, because once you are older, you're not "allowed" to be irresponsible like you were in your college days. I studied engineering, and looking back, I wish I had been to more parties and met more people.
When you start interviewing for jobs, you need to be able to hold a conversation, be interesting, talk about different things, and generally be a likable person. An active social life will help you with that.
Life isn't all about academics - enjoy it a little.
OK
Then I want access to a record of where every public employee is at all times of the day, fed right into my Google Maps
This sounds like the automated baggage handling system installed in Denver a while back.
Hundreds of millions of dollars later, it was a complete failure, and they resorted to hand carts.
Write up a one page document about the project, then go look at the code you are modifying. Make your best guess estimate, then double it.
$5000 is on the low end for a PPL.
But there is a big difference between getting a certificate, and being a safe pilot.
As you move forward, you'll realize how unsafe you were, and how little you knew.
Also - make sure to get your instrument rating.
Fuel: approx $4.50-$5.50/gal.
Fuel Burn: 7-9GPH @ 110 KIAS
An airplane gets roughly 16 miles/gallon, but you can go most places in a straight line, so its even better than following roads.
Why don't you just make the soldiers that go to ten louder?
I have a WNDR3300 running dd-wrt and an Asus WL-520GU as a print server. I am not impressed with the range of the 5GHz WNDR3300 in N mode. In a room where I receive decent G coverage, I get almost no N coverage. My old router used to reach up to the third floor, but the Netgear fails to do so (hence the Asus as a print server and G repeater).
DD-WRT, however, is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I remember manually editing IPTABLES back in the day to make my computer be a router, and I never thought I'd see it on something so embedded and cheap.
Ah yes, the "Big Sky, Small Airplane" theory.
Many pilots subscribe to this theory, and if you do out the numbers, it makes sense.
In my personal flying, I have seen enough contradictions to this theory, that I do not believe it, nor should you.
Yes!
I was talking with a CFI about that. Apparently he had a friend who could read 2 books at the same time as a result of his time spent in an Apache.
iddqd
Using turn signals is a sign of weakness !
I actually think we in the Boston area are better drivers than the rest of the country, mostly because of the idiots we have to deal with on a daily basis here. Sort of like training Olympians, and then going to play the local high school team.
No joke, I did this last week, and started using Chrome. Strangely, it works ok.
Firefox - sucks. Their stupid sqllite way they keep bookmarks eats my disk, and their dns lookups keep reverting to ipv6 even though it is disabled.
IE - sucks. The flash plugin just eats memory until it crashes at about 600MB of usage.
The second half of the sign was above the 4GB addressable memory size.
A DA40 with a G1000 glass cockpit is ohhhh soooo pretty. I'd rather stare at the displays than out the window.
Diamond Star DA40 will pull 160 safely on a calm day. Not too expensive at $330K.
Although I do my flying in New England during the summer, so the air tends to be too rough for anything fancy like that. I've never seen more continuous days of chop and 85 degree weather than I have this year.
I wouldn't fly my Cessna above 160kias under any circumstances. Though I do admit I hit 140 trying watch a Citation turn an insanely tight final which he called for.
$6000-$9000 for VFR
then $8000 for IFR
If you are making quick short hops (under 400 miles), a pilot's license is totally worth it. Even if you are paying for a rental to sit idle for a day, its sometimes cheaper than flying on the airlines. Very few delays, a better view, and you can cruise (160kts) at about 60% the speed of a turboprop.