What's interesting about it is that the encryption doesn't get updated when you change your password. Say you encrypt your files, then change your p/w: you'll still need your old p/w to access those files.
You're fine as long as you change your own password. If the administrator (or someone else) resets it, then you have problems.
EFS doesn't encrypt filenames, so there's little point trying to do the entire disk. They'd be able to see what software you have installed either way.
Sometimes computers become so wedged that even pulling the power cable won't work. You have to open the case and pull the processor off the motherboard when that happens.
A lot of information is also stored on fragile writable media these days instead of pressed discs. I suspect that many items of possible future historical interest are stored on CD/DVD-Rs and good old magnetic tape. Unfortunately it's hard to define what's of "historical interest" until stuff has had time to sit around for a while. Even assuming it's feasible to do constant media shifts, some data will be inevitably left out and potentially lost forever. (I wonder how much government data is rotting on tape in a warehouse somewhere, for example.)
Future generations could end up believing that we spent all of our time listening to Devo and watching Blade Runner (in widescreen, of course).
Moral priciples and "fairness" for one are extremely vague terms.
That's certainly true. However, the point is that the market is just a mechanism for pricing goods and services. All markets are "created" in the sense that the participants have to agree (implicitly or explicitly) about the rules for exchange. Enron wouldn't have been able to trade energy contracts without the "deregulation" laws that made this possible. (The proposed terrorism futures exchange is another example.) There's nothing stopping us from changing the rules to benefit workers.
For example, say we decide that the natural environment belongs to the people and any company that harms the environment has to "pay the people back" through environmental damage taxes. This is a moral rule that we've added to the definition of the market. The company's profits decrease, and Adam Smith's invisible hand causes their stock price to drop. Polluting corporations now have an incentive to improve their ways. We could also give tax credits to companies who clean up the environment, improving their bottom line and stock price.
Likewise, we can make full, gainful employment a moral priority. If we define the market in those terms, we can use it to our advantage instead of watching while our labor force disintegrates before our eyes.
No, I mean our economy. It's the structure of our economy that allows wealth to concentrate at the top while the rest of us fend for ourselves. This isn't a free market versus command issue either. There's no reason you can't have a free market economy based on moral principles and fairness. Think employee-owned companies, public works projects instead of divisive unemployment "handouts," or employee control of pension funds (which make up a large percentage of the stock market).
I just finished a great book called The Soul of Capitalism that covers this topic in detail. A key part of its thesis is that the concentration of wealth at the top makes the market less efficient, not more. It's well worth the read, even for the hard core social darwinists in the audience.
It's precisely the selfish profit-driven nature of our economy that allows this to happen. Few "educated" people gave a crap when factory jobs started leaving the country in droves. Now that it's happening to us (knowledge workers), it's suddenly a big deal.
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You must have excellent taste in movies.
You're fine as long as you change your own password. If the administrator (or someone else) resets it, then you have problems.
EFS doesn't encrypt filenames, so there's little point trying to do the entire disk. They'd be able to see what software you have installed either way.
No, he had Osama do it.
Alt-PrintScrn will copy the active window to the clipboard. This is often more useful than taking a snapshot of everything.
Ctrl+Shift+Esc will bring up the task manager directly without having to go through the security box.
Sometimes computers become so wedged that even pulling the power cable won't work. You have to open the case and pull the processor off the motherboard when that happens.
It's kind of ironic that you're posting this on Slashdot.
OS/2: Where did you go yesterday?
And I thought pocket calls were annoying.
"Hey, you want a free battery?"
Have you ever read the BSD announcements?
You still have to cough the right way at the end of the message to make it work.
Yes! Wardialing is back!
This would allow us to take care of the spammers, though.
It's been done, thankfully without finger.
Your absolutely write.
Future generations could end up believing that we spent all of our time listening to Devo and watching Blade Runner (in widescreen, of course).
The result of this decision made nearly 30 years ago is that the Internet simply cannot handle more than 2^32 or 4,294,967,296 devices.
Ten bucks says your wife is cheating on you.
That's certainly true. However, the point is that the market is just a mechanism for pricing goods and services. All markets are "created" in the sense that the participants have to agree (implicitly or explicitly) about the rules for exchange. Enron wouldn't have been able to trade energy contracts without the "deregulation" laws that made this possible. (The proposed terrorism futures exchange is another example.) There's nothing stopping us from changing the rules to benefit workers.
For example, say we decide that the natural environment belongs to the people and any company that harms the environment has to "pay the people back" through environmental damage taxes. This is a moral rule that we've added to the definition of the market. The company's profits decrease, and Adam Smith's invisible hand causes their stock price to drop. Polluting corporations now have an incentive to improve their ways. We could also give tax credits to companies who clean up the environment, improving their bottom line and stock price.
Likewise, we can make full, gainful employment a moral priority. If we define the market in those terms, we can use it to our advantage instead of watching while our labor force disintegrates before our eyes.
I just finished a great book called The Soul of Capitalism that covers this topic in detail. A key part of its thesis is that the concentration of wealth at the top makes the market less efficient, not more. It's well worth the read, even for the hard core social darwinists in the audience.
It's precisely the selfish profit-driven nature of our economy that allows this to happen. Few "educated" people gave a crap when factory jobs started leaving the country in droves. Now that it's happening to us (knowledge workers), it's suddenly a big deal.
We should kick his AAAAss.
No, he delegated it to you.