I find all this 'Trusted Computing' a bit too much to take in. Trust the computer but don't trust me? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
1) So I create a Word document at work. I use my fingerprint to lock it down so no other can read it (I'll unlock it after the draft stage). My company moves me to another project just before it's finished and I die in a freak car accident the same afternoon.
What now? It's not like you can brute force the password as you can do now with Word documents. Thousands and thousands of pounds were spent on the document. More than all the chips inside the grey box are worth.
So what now? Someone please tell me.
2) I refuse to give my fingerprints over to my employer.
"Look boss, you can have 40 hours of my time a week at 100% effort but you're not having anything more from me. No blood, no sweat and no tears. That includes my fingerprints."
Will my employer sack me?
What about if I want my fingerprints back when I leave the company? Track down every document I've ever written to undo the fingerprint locks? I can imagine a phone call 6 months down the line asking me to pop-in for 5 minutes ($1m an hour for my fingerprint service btw boss).
3) We currently send documents over the internet that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to possible future tenderers. We use email. We might use PDF but there will be no security on it.
Are we going to change the way we work? No, no way. We don't even use Track Changes or Version Control on SharePoint.
Someone highup expects people to understand this Trusted Computer lark? It's not going to happen at my company (10,000 employees).
I knew there was little hope when my four-year-old daughter stood at the top of the stairs and shouted:
"Dad! Is Shit a naughty word?"
These days, she understands that she can talk amongst her friends however she chooses but while in the company of adults she must mind her mouth. To be fair I rarely hear her repeating words she shouldn't.
1st course they send you on is for Word. 2nd course is Excel
3rd...
Well, most people from the older generation don't get to go on course #3. They struggle with the first two applications; learning a 3rd isn't going to happen any time soon. It would be a complete waste of resources.
Even if they needed a proper database (with GUI) for their day to day work, the database is unlikely to be written by them anyway. That's a job for the *cough* experts.
I know SQL, I know Access, I know a little more than average. I would still use Excel for a simple database though. I would use it because everyone I work with knows how to use Excel to some degree. If I need to show someone how to write a Query in order to plant some data in their Word document then I'll show them how in Excel. Excel's not alien to them. They can grasp one extra function or dialog quite quickly. They can make changes if I happen to die too.
SQL server is kind of pointless when all you want to do is list people's names, ages and addresses.
"Keep the fridge full. The more "stuff" in the fridge the more efficient it is. Air heats/cools quickly and escapes readily when the door is opened. Stuff in the fridge will help the temperature come back to cold quickly and reduce run-time. Also, keep the door closed as much as possible. Standing in front of the fridge with the door open searching for something to eat is a tremendous waste."
Can you back that 'fact' up?
I'm picking on this one because a recent public service TV advert is telling UK residents the exact opposite. Keep less in your fridge in order to save energy is the message we are being told.
oh, and cooking...
1. Boil the kettle. Kettles are very good at boiling water (really Inda? No shit!) 2. Pour boiling water into saucepan.
3. COVER THE SAUCEPAN. You will save 80% of your power by covering the saucepan.
4. Bring back to the boil on full power. Minimum power after that. 5. Add food and cook.
Being tell my missus that for 10 years now. One day she'll see the logic behind it.
"In Summer - open the windows near the computers to let the heat out"
1. He's from the UK. We don't really get a summer here. 2. Open the windows as apposed to what? Turning on the air conditioning? He's from the UK. We don't have air conditioning in our homes.
"[take] advantage of the energy that is freely available from the sun when it shines"
I was always taller than everyone else. Then I stopped growing at around 16. Now I'm only an average 6 foot (5'11.75). Being taller than everyone else was great.
Being confident kept all the childhood nastiness away. No, that's a lie. I still had it all directed my way just like the majority of other people. Being confident let it all slide away like water off a duck's back.
'Taking the piss' is all about finding something that upsets someone. If people can see you're upset after being called a Twat then that's where the focus of piss-taking is going to be. Whether you're Twat or not; get upset by it and people will call you a Twat all day long.
I always found "what's the weather like up there?" to be a friendly gesture and a little droll.
I prefer my install to have the plain look. It's hidden by other windows or minimized most of the time anyway.
I like it for the very low CPU usage and memory footprint. It easily displays 10,000 tunes on my old P3 450mhz. I reckon an old 233mhz would cope fine with it too.
The customisable, RegEx style playlist display formats are also great (if a little complex).
If you need an MP3 player, that also plays every other type of audio format under the sun, then get Foobar2000. An audio player that just plays audio well.
I know you're only trying to help but to answer the GP's post again.
Probably yes. That's a big 99.9% yes...
Yes, the Worm tries to delete anti-virus program files. Yes, tries to stop anti-virus software running at reboot. But if it's managed to do that, there's no way you're scanning your PC tonight anyway.
Update your definitions and scan now. Inform everyone you know not to open email attachments they weren't expecting.
Which brings me to another point: Do people really get hit with these anymore? It won't make it though all the major webmail services. You haven't been able to open *.PIF or *.SCR files in Outlook for years now. You almost have to go out of your way to get infected by email worms these days.
Don't get caught up in the media hype. This isn't another Blaster.
Only in the UK you don't get it free. There is newly classified 'tax' that we all have to pay in order to receive radio and TV signals. We can go to gaol (do not pass Go) if we refuse to pay.
I listen to 15-year-old CDs because this was when I found music as a teenager. The memories come flooding back when I stick an old CD on.
My father, who must be 55 now, listens to music he enjoyed as a teenager. The thought of him listening to anything younger than 20 years old makes me laugh.
No, these days you create rubbish products and live off your brand name.
I uninstalled your anti-virus software many moons ago. One day, many moons later, I saw network traffic when there should have been none. This traffic (2mb an hour - nearly 1.5gb a month) was coming from one of your updating applications that had not been uninstalled properly. Thanks for that. Thanks for the wasted time and the wasted bandwidth.
I could go on about the hours your software takes to scan my little hard drive. But I won't.
I could go on about the weekly reboots needed to update definitions. But I won't.
I could go on about the alternatives to your crappy software but I think everyone (who doesn't shop in PC World) already knows the score there.
Jury Rig is also correct. I have heard the Yanks say it before. I never made the connection to WWII but I suspect this might be true. Jerry Rig and Jury Rig sound so similar that the British accent to American accent translation probably has something to do with it too.
I believe Bird Flu is the latest 'big thing' the media are using to drive newspaper sales, TV advertisement placements, etc. I also think people should stop and think a little before passing rumours onto friends and family. If I'm told one more time that Christmas Turkey from Asia can give you Bird Flu I'm going to scream.
"Flu kills about 12,000 people a year, although twice in the last 15 years the death toll has reached nearly double that." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4459140.stm
That's 12,000 Flu related deaths on our small island alone each and every year. Someone should really do something about that and fast! Where's the public outrage?
It was a stupid thing to do. Actually I got caught because I had a brake light out - even more stupid...
I have to drive into Bath for work reasons. The jobs takes 15 minutes each week. The driving takes tens times that ammount. The people who pay me are the mad ones.
In Bath, in the South West of England http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bath, they are already using a system like this. 30+ cameras read your number plate as you drive around the city. A computer checks your number plate against a database and if you have no insurance, MOT or tax, a policeman on a motorbike is dispatched and you are pulled over for a game of twenty questions.
Having been caught myself once for having no MOT, I am pleased about this new system. The government suggests there are 1 in 10 drivers drive who illegally in the UK. I thought I could get away with it as the odds of getting away with it seemed good. Maybe everyone will pay their way now.
The theft of number plates is likely to rise as a result of this new system. Using stolen number plates for stealing petrol and avoiding congestion charges is already on the up.
I am an "over-enthusiastic" 17-year-old chemistry student from Grane Street, Haslingden, Lancashire, UK and I must say that I think you're the best. I have followed your work throughout my A-Level chemistry course and you've been a great inspiration to me.
Thanks!
p.s. I was very disappointed with the police explosions. They could learn a thing or two from you both!
It's times like this I wish I'd chosen a shorter passphrase with less symbols. I truly hope m.gmail.com 'remembers me'.:)
Very old, very cheap, Siemens MC60 on the Tescos O2 pay-as-you-blow network (UK) works perfectly. This is free for me by the way; does anyone else pay for GPRS on Tescos O2?
Normally when I try and surf the web on my phone it looks a mess, important bits are missing or the phone runs out of memory because the page is too large. Gmail did not suffer from any of these problems.
1. The interface is typical Google clean. 2. Large emails, like 'eBay Item Sold: Mini...' emails, are split up into smaller pieces with a 'Page 2 of 5' link at the bottom. No more out of memory problems
I didn't try anything else out because this fits my needs perfectly.
The question on my lips now is: why has something like this taken so long to get right?
They'd like you to think your car is aerodynamic but it's not. It's a brick on wheels.
Sticking a spoiler on the back of the car increases drag. All that air that rushes in through the grill increases drag. The floor panels are not smooth....I could go on.
The only reason cars look more rounded these days is because it's cheaper to press rounded panels. Creases in panels cost a fortune because that's the point in the panel that tears when pressing. Creases are a Metal Forming Engineer's nightmare.
I used to make prototype models for BMW Rover. I didn't do the clay models for the wind tunnels but I could have if asked. I have been involved in the process though - no great effort was expended in this part of the design process.
I remember the campaign in the UK. The figure of "four times" more likely to crash was given. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4672657.stm
I also remember a leaflet that was posted at work by the coffee machine. I wish I could find the exact wording (please someone post it if they can). It went something like this below and it really hit me where it was supposed too. You have to read it many times before understanding it.
Slashdot Mirror
I find all this 'Trusted Computing' a bit too much to take in. Trust the computer but don't trust me? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
1) So I create a Word document at work. I use my fingerprint to lock it down so no other can read it (I'll unlock it after the draft stage). My company moves me to another project just before it's finished and I die in a freak car accident the same afternoon.
What now? It's not like you can brute force the password as you can do now with Word documents. Thousands and thousands of pounds were spent on the document. More than all the chips inside the grey box are worth.
So what now? Someone please tell me.
2) I refuse to give my fingerprints over to my employer.
"Look boss, you can have 40 hours of my time a week at 100% effort but you're not having anything more from me. No blood, no sweat and no tears. That includes my fingerprints."
Will my employer sack me?
What about if I want my fingerprints back when I leave the company? Track down every document I've ever written to undo the fingerprint locks? I can imagine a phone call 6 months down the line asking me to pop-in for 5 minutes ($1m an hour for my fingerprint service btw boss).
3) We currently send documents over the internet that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to possible future tenderers. We use email. We might use PDF but there will be no security on it.
Are we going to change the way we work? No, no way. We don't even use Track Changes or Version Control on SharePoint.
Someone highup expects people to understand this Trusted Computer lark? It's not going to happen at my company (10,000 employees).
I see no benefit in any of this.
I knew there was little hope when my four-year-old daughter stood at the top of the stairs and shouted:
"Dad! Is Shit a naughty word?"
These days, she understands that she can talk amongst her friends however she chooses but while in the company of adults she must mind her mouth. To be fair I rarely hear her repeating words she shouldn't.
1st course they send you on is for Word.
2nd course is Excel
3rd...
Well, most people from the older generation don't get to go on course #3. They struggle with the first two applications; learning a 3rd isn't going to happen any time soon. It would be a complete waste of resources.
Even if they needed a proper database (with GUI) for their day to day work, the database is unlikely to be written by them anyway. That's a job for the *cough* experts.
I know SQL, I know Access, I know a little more than average. I would still use Excel for a simple database though. I would use it because everyone I work with knows how to use Excel to some degree. If I need to show someone how to write a Query in order to plant some data in their Word document then I'll show them how in Excel. Excel's not alien to them. They can grasp one extra function or dialog quite quickly. They can make changes if I happen to die too.
SQL server is kind of pointless when all you want to do is list people's names, ages and addresses.
"Keep the fridge full. The more "stuff" in the fridge the more efficient it is. Air heats/cools quickly and escapes readily when the door is opened. Stuff in the fridge will help the temperature come back to cold quickly and reduce run-time. Also, keep the door closed as much as possible. Standing in front of the fridge with the door open searching for something to eat is a tremendous waste."
Can you back that 'fact' up?
I'm picking on this one because a recent public service TV advert is telling UK residents the exact opposite. Keep less in your fridge in order to save energy is the message we are being told.
oh, and cooking...
1. Boil the kettle. Kettles are very good at boiling water (really Inda? No shit!)
2. Pour boiling water into saucepan.
3. COVER THE SAUCEPAN. You will save 80% of your power by covering the saucepan.
4. Bring back to the boil on full power. Minimum power after that.
5. Add food and cook.
Being tell my missus that for 10 years now. One day she'll see the logic behind it.
"In Summer - open the windows near the computers to let the heat out"
1. He's from the UK. We don't really get a summer here.
2. Open the windows as apposed to what? Turning on the air conditioning? He's from the UK. We don't have air conditioning in our homes.
"[take] advantage of the energy that is freely available from the sun when it shines"
HE'S FROM THE UK!!!
God bless The Queen!
What's the weather like up there?!?!?
I was always taller than everyone else. Then I stopped growing at around 16. Now I'm only an average 6 foot (5'11.75). Being taller than everyone else was great.
Being confident kept all the childhood nastiness away. No, that's a lie. I still had it all directed my way just like the majority of other people. Being confident let it all slide away like water off a duck's back.
'Taking the piss' is all about finding something that upsets someone. If people can see you're upset after being called a Twat then that's where the focus of piss-taking is going to be. Whether you're Twat or not; get upset by it and people will call you a Twat all day long.
I always found "what's the weather like up there?" to be a friendly gesture and a little droll.
I prefer my install to have the plain look. It's hidden by other windows or minimized most of the time anyway.
I like it for the very low CPU usage and memory footprint. It easily displays 10,000 tunes on my old P3 450mhz. I reckon an old 233mhz would cope fine with it too.
The customisable, RegEx style playlist display formats are also great (if a little complex).
If you need an MP3 player, that also plays every other type of audio format under the sun, then get Foobar2000. An audio player that just plays audio well.
I know you're only trying to help but to answer the GP's post again.
Probably yes. That's a big 99.9% yes...
Yes, the Worm tries to delete anti-virus program files. Yes, tries to stop anti-virus software running at reboot. But if it's managed to do that, there's no way you're scanning your PC tonight anyway.
Update your definitions and scan now. Inform everyone you know not to open email attachments they weren't expecting.
Which brings me to another point: Do people really get hit with these anymore? It won't make it though all the major webmail services. You haven't been able to open *.PIF or *.SCR files in Outlook for years now. You almost have to go out of your way to get infected by email worms these days.
Don't get caught up in the media hype. This isn't another Blaster.
"I get free music all day long on the radio."
Only in the UK you don't get it free. There is newly classified 'tax' that we all have to pay in order to receive radio and TV signals. We can go to gaol (do not pass Go) if we refuse to pay.
It's not free Sir.
I listen to 15-year-old CDs because this was when I found music as a teenager. The memories come flooding back when I stick an old CD on.
My father, who must be 55 now, listens to music he enjoyed as a teenager. The thought of him listening to anything younger than 20 years old makes me laugh.
Renting music sounds silly to my ears.
Yep, those whacky Dutch invented it.
Very fast music. Has that speedcore, junglist, drum and bass sound to it. Very, very fast - did I say that already?
No, these days you create rubbish products and live off your brand name.
I uninstalled your anti-virus software many moons ago. One day, many moons later, I saw network traffic when there should have been none. This traffic (2mb an hour - nearly 1.5gb a month) was coming from one of your updating applications that had not been uninstalled properly. Thanks for that. Thanks for the wasted time and the wasted bandwidth.
I could go on about the hours your software takes to scan my little hard drive. But I won't.
I could go on about the weekly reboots needed to update definitions. But I won't.
I could go on about the alternatives to your crappy software but I think everyone (who doesn't shop in PC World) already knows the score there.
Jury Rig is also correct. I have heard the Yanks say it before. I never made the connection to WWII but I suspect this might be true. Jerry Rig and Jury Rig sound so similar that the British accent to American accent translation probably has something to do with it too.
That's funny. The two look nothing like each other.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm
An interesting quote (and an interested page in general).
I think you've hit the nail on the head because you can only con the greedy and the dishonest.
I believe Bird Flu is the latest 'big thing' the media are using to drive newspaper sales, TV advertisement placements, etc. I also think people should stop and think a little before passing rumours onto friends and family. If I'm told one more time that Christmas Turkey from Asia can give you Bird Flu I'm going to scream.
"Flu kills about 12,000 people a year, although twice in the last 15 years the death toll has reached nearly double that." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4459140.stm
That's 12,000 Flu related deaths on our small island alone each and every year. Someone should really do something about that and fast! Where's the public outrage?
It was a stupid thing to do. Actually I got caught because I had a brake light out - even more stupid...
I have to drive into Bath for work reasons. The jobs takes 15 minutes each week. The driving takes tens times that ammount. The people who pay me are the mad ones.
I'm not after MOD points but here's a link to backup my original post. I've also found out they use the same system in Bristol. http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/LocalPages/Ne wsDetails.aspx?nsid=3530&t=1&lid=3
In Bath, in the South West of England http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bath, they are already using a system like this. 30+ cameras read your number plate as you drive around the city. A computer checks your number plate against a database and if you have no insurance, MOT or tax, a policeman on a motorbike is dispatched and you are pulled over for a game of twenty questions.
Having been caught myself once for having no MOT, I am pleased about this new system. The government suggests there are 1 in 10 drivers drive who illegally in the UK. I thought I could get away with it as the odds of getting away with it seemed good. Maybe everyone will pay their way now.
The theft of number plates is likely to rise as a result of this new system. Using stolen number plates for stealing petrol and avoiding congestion charges is already on the up.
I am an "over-enthusiastic" 17-year-old chemistry student from Grane Street, Haslingden, Lancashire, UK and I must say that I think you're the best. I have followed your work throughout my A-Level chemistry course and you've been a great inspiration to me.
Thanks!
p.s. I was very disappointed with the police explosions. They could learn a thing or two from you both!
50 a day? pffft
I get 200 a day and you should see the size of my...
...spam folder.
It's times like this I wish I'd chosen a shorter passphrase with less symbols. I truly hope m.gmail.com 'remembers me'. :)
Very old, very cheap, Siemens MC60 on the Tescos O2 pay-as-you-blow network (UK) works perfectly. This is free for me by the way; does anyone else pay for GPRS on Tescos O2?
Normally when I try and surf the web on my phone it looks a mess, important bits are missing or the phone runs out of memory because the page is too large. Gmail did not suffer from any of these problems.
1. The interface is typical Google clean.
2. Large emails, like 'eBay Item Sold: Mini...' emails, are split up into smaller pieces with a 'Page 2 of 5' link at the bottom. No more out of memory problems
I didn't try anything else out because this fits my needs perfectly.
The question on my lips now is: why has something like this taken so long to get right?
They'd like you to think your car is aerodynamic but it's not. It's a brick on wheels.
...I could go on.
Sticking a spoiler on the back of the car increases drag.
All that air that rushes in through the grill increases drag.
The floor panels are not smooth.
The only reason cars look more rounded these days is because it's cheaper to press rounded panels. Creases in panels cost a fortune because that's the point in the panel that tears when pressing. Creases are a Metal Forming Engineer's nightmare.
I used to make prototype models for BMW Rover. I didn't do the clay models for the wind tunnels but I could have if asked. I have been involved in the process though - no great effort was expended in this part of the design process.
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/177
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/179
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/181
You're on your own with the videos
I remember the campaign in the UK. The figure of "four times" more likely to crash was given. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4672657.stm
I also remember a leaflet that was posted at work by the coffee machine. I wish I could find the exact wording (please someone post it if they can). It went something like this below and it really hit me where it was supposed too. You have to read it many times before understanding it.
You are four times more likely to
It is very hard to concentrate on
have an accident whilst driving and
more than one thing at a time.
talking on a mobile phone.