Make up your mind whether IT administration is easy or hard.
IT administration is hard. Coming up with a secure password is easy. Coincidentally I happen to know no single person who is paid for coming up with passwords.
I strongly doubt that many celebrities administrate their own servers.
A cell phone is rarely tied to a room (like the conference room). Indeed, if the malware decides to send only at night, there's a good chance that the phone is lying somewhere near the bed of the employee, quite far from any corporate infrastructure which might be used to detect the transmission.
The rotary phones I knew mechanically disconnected the line when the cradle was pressed. Of course if you had removed the receiver from the cradle and still thought you were not connected anywhere just because you had not dialled a number, you were stupid. You just would have had to listen to it to know that it was connected to somewhere. Note that unpressing the cradle was not possible remotely. Of course someone might have physically modified the phone, but that's on the same level as installing a bug.
Also note that the ISDN phones I was speaking of weren't cell phones either. I don't think there's a wireless version of ISDN. They had not been rotary phones, though.
Now that exploiting a device with a microphone can turn it into a listening device isn't exactly new either (I remember having heard the same about ISDN phones quite some time ago). However that doesn't change the fact that there's still a huge gap between tracking and listening.
Wrong. Einstein's theory of relativity doesn't say that reality is relative. Indeed it is very absolute in that theory. What is relative is the way we slice it into space and time.
It's very hard to get fooled if you always think by default "it's a fake" and only revise that opinion after having convinced yourself that the mail is legit. Then the worst thing you might do when tired is to not react on a legitimate mail.
Reading your comment, I'm not sure that you know what you are talking about.
Let's start with your last example, of sodium chloride. When solved in water, it is separately sodium ions and chloride ions. Sop yes, you are drinking chloride when you're drinking sodium chloride. And there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't drink (or eat) too much of it. Maybe you were confusing it with chlorine (same element, but neutral molecules; drinking that certainly is not a good idea, although at normal conditions it's a gas anyway, so you'd more likely breathe than drink it; of course breathing it isn't exactly healthy either).
Now to sodium monoglutamate. The "sodium" part means there are sodium ions (unlike for anions, kations are not named differently from their neutral form; however it's quite clear that it doesn't contain netral, i.e. metallic, sodium). The "mono" in "monoglutamate" means that there there's just one glutamate per sodium ion. So it comes doen to what is meant with "glutamate" here. Since it is very unusual to name two completely different things the same name in chemistry, I strongly doubt that the glutamate in sodium monoglutamate is a different substance than the glutamate in the brain. Moreover the basic function of glutamate, namely being a flavour enhancer, fits quite well with it being a neurotransmitter. That's because it does not taste like meat, but it enhances the taste, effectively making the taste buds transmit a stronger signal. It makes sense that a neurotransmitter might have that effect.
Does that suffice to imply that processed food makes you suicidal? Of course not. It just means that there might be a connection. That's why I formulated it as question, not as claim.
tl;dr: Before accusing others not to know what they are talking about, you should make sure you know what you are talking about yourself.
So it's effectively a hash table where the hash is stored in a B-tree instead of a being used as array index. It still has the base characteristics of a hash table, though:
Step 1: You calculate a hash from your key. Step 2: You map that hash key to a container (in a standard hash table: Use it as index; in btrfs: look it up in a B-tree) Step 3: You seek your actual item in that container (in the usual hash table, and apparently also in btrfs: A linear list; to protect against malicious attacs: a balanced tree).
What you described is how step 2 differs in btrfs from the usual hash table. My comment was about how to do better on step 3. And yes, a B-tree would be a better option to an RB-tree there. When I wrote "RB tree" I actually meant "balanced tree".
It's a shame to waste 1/8 of your total memory on graphics storage for a headless application. Even if you want to keep graphics support available for debugging purposes, a 640x480x16 resolution is more than enough for that and needs only 150 kB.
The non-encrypted file isn't the main problem here. Yes, the file should have been encrypted. But the main problem is that the attackers could get access to it by simply having the employee click on that email link. Clicking a link in an email should never ever enable an attacker, no matter how malicious, to access local files.
Notifying the affected people isn't snake oil. If my information was compromised, I'd certainly like to know. If I don't know my information was compromised, I can't know to protect against that.
And I guess you lack any experience of Slashdot. Otherwise you would have clicked the Parent link to see which post I actually answered to. Hint: That post did not contain a joke.
And BTW, the original joke was funny because it played exactly on the misspelling which was already in the summary, and used the correct interpretation of the acronym.
The conserved quantity here is energy, but there are plenty of energy differences which are not based on different elementary particles. Indeed, excitations are defined exactly by the same system being in a different energy state.
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What's racist about that comment?
IT administration is hard. Coming up with a secure password is easy. Coincidentally I happen to know no single person who is paid for coming up with passwords.
I strongly doubt that many celebrities administrate their own servers.
A cell phone is rarely tied to a room (like the conference room). Indeed, if the malware decides to send only at night, there's a good chance that the phone is lying somewhere near the bed of the employee, quite far from any corporate infrastructure which might be used to detect the transmission.
The rotary phones I knew mechanically disconnected the line when the cradle was pressed. Of course if you had removed the receiver from the cradle and still thought you were not connected anywhere just because you had not dialled a number, you were stupid. You just would have had to listen to it to know that it was connected to somewhere. Note that unpressing the cradle was not possible remotely. Of course someone might have physically modified the phone, but that's on the same level as installing a bug.
Also note that the ISDN phones I was speaking of weren't cell phones either. I don't think there's a wireless version of ISDN. They had not been rotary phones, though.
But is normally is not a listening device.
Now that exploiting a device with a microphone can turn it into a listening device isn't exactly new either (I remember having heard the same about ISDN phones quite some time ago). However that doesn't change the fact that there's still a huge gap between tracking and listening.
That's actually not true: The short excerpts Google shows are definitely copyrighted. Not to mention Google cache.
That's indeed interesting. In the German version it's "Troubadix", which refers not only just to music, but even to singing.
Well, in the galactic empire the majority didn't listen to him. Which was actually part of his plan.
Don't write "Help!" (exclamation mark" or "please help me" (first person pronoun).
I think for the first one you wanted to write: "Hey, that's fucking cool! :)"
And for the second one, you don't want the exclamation mark. That was also claimed to be a sign of non-credibility.
Or what about this:
The world is going to end. :-( It will be eaten by a black hole approaching Earth, reaching us on Dec 21. See http://gaotse.cx for details.
(Link intentionally misspelled)
Wrong. Einstein's theory of relativity doesn't say that reality is relative. Indeed it is very absolute in that theory. What is relative is the way we slice it into space and time.
You've used a question mark, an exclamation mark and a positive smiley. Thus you lost any credibility, according to the cited criteria.
It's very hard to get fooled if you always think by default "it's a fake" and only revise that opinion after having convinced yourself that the mail is legit. Then the worst thing you might do when tired is to not react on a legitimate mail.
Reading your comment, I'm not sure that you know what you are talking about.
Let's start with your last example, of sodium chloride. When solved in water, it is separately sodium ions and chloride ions. Sop yes, you are drinking chloride when you're drinking sodium chloride. And there's nothing wrong with that as long as you don't drink (or eat) too much of it. Maybe you were confusing it with chlorine (same element, but neutral molecules; drinking that certainly is not a good idea, although at normal conditions it's a gas anyway, so you'd more likely breathe than drink it; of course breathing it isn't exactly healthy either).
Now to sodium monoglutamate. The "sodium" part means there are sodium ions (unlike for anions, kations are not named differently from their neutral form; however it's quite clear that it doesn't contain netral, i.e. metallic, sodium). The "mono" in "monoglutamate" means that there there's just one glutamate per sodium ion. So it comes doen to what is meant with "glutamate" here. Since it is very unusual to name two completely different things the same name in chemistry, I strongly doubt that the glutamate in sodium monoglutamate is a different substance than the glutamate in the brain. Moreover the basic function of glutamate, namely being a flavour enhancer, fits quite well with it being a neurotransmitter. That's because it does not taste like meat, but it enhances the taste, effectively making the taste buds transmit a stronger signal. It makes sense that a neurotransmitter might have that effect.
Does that suffice to imply that processed food makes you suicidal? Of course not. It just means that there might be a connection. That's why I formulated it as question, not as claim.
tl;dr: Before accusing others not to know what they are talking about, you should make sure you know what you are talking about yourself.
So it's effectively a hash table where the hash is stored in a B-tree instead of a being used as array index. It still has the base characteristics of a hash table, though:
Step 1: You calculate a hash from your key.
Step 2: You map that hash key to a container (in a standard hash table: Use it as index; in btrfs: look it up in a B-tree)
Step 3: You seek your actual item in that container (in the usual hash table, and apparently also in btrfs: A linear list; to protect against malicious attacs: a balanced tree).
What you described is how step 2 differs in btrfs from the usual hash table. My comment was about how to do better on step 3. And yes, a B-tree would be a better option to an RB-tree there. When I wrote "RB tree" I actually meant "balanced tree".
Just having the browser and email program running under a separate user account from the internal stuff would go a long way at protecting local files.
It's a shame to waste 1/8 of your total memory on graphics storage for a headless application. Even if you want to keep graphics support available for debugging purposes, a 640x480x16 resolution is more than enough for that and needs only 150 kB.
Glutamate is a quite common flavour enhancer in processed food. Does that mean processed food can make you suicidal?
That doesn't need to be hypocrisy. It might also just be them considering their children still too young for porn.
The non-encrypted file isn't the main problem here. Yes, the file should have been encrypted. But the main problem is that the attackers could get access to it by simply having the employee click on that email link. Clicking a link in an email should never ever enable an attacker, no matter how malicious, to access local files.
Notifying the affected people isn't snake oil. If my information was compromised, I'd certainly like to know. If I don't know my information was compromised, I can't know to protect against that.
And I guess you lack any experience of Slashdot. Otherwise you would have clicked the Parent link to see which post I actually answered to. Hint: That post did not contain a joke.
And BTW, the original joke was funny because it played exactly on the misspelling which was already in the summary, and used the correct interpretation of the acronym.
The conserved quantity here is energy, but there are plenty of energy differences which are not based on different elementary particles. Indeed, excitations are defined exactly by the same system being in a different energy state.
I just dont see people willing to carry around all those stones.
God gave Moses the ten commandments on tablets, not on e-readers. So obviously he considered it the better technology.