If you can afford some things that are worth stealing (big TV, laptop, etc), you can probably afford at least some of the above. Most people gamble on it being cheaper to bet against not being robbed though.
And as the neighborhood is described as "affluent", I think that the people in this case could probably afford some decent security.
the bozo in the other political party is out to destroy America as we know it.
Given the corruption, apathy, and abuse-of-power in the current US system, destroying America "as we know it" is not a bad idea. Perhaps doing so and then rebuilding it "as its forefathers intended" (and accounting for current situations) might be a good plan.
Um, kinda how I read the title, the summary, and even TFA?
Yes, encryption may have prevented access to the actual data in the backups, provided one set things up to mount the encrypted volume when backing up, without having a password somewhere the cracker could see it.
However, if you had read *MY* comment, other than the title, I was referring to the issues of having the backups wiped-out and/or gaining access to the production servers (it was not indicated that this was done through data in the backups themselves).
From a point of saving the user's data,encryption is a smart idea in general. From a point of preventing your backups from being nuked, I still fail to see how it helps.
Seems to me that even a parent/family-member forcing a 13-year-old girl to strip for them - especially down to the point of revealing genitalia - would be looking at possible criminal child-abuse, exploitation, or other such charges. Why not school staff?
One thing I haven't quite figured out yet. This seems to be a civil suit against the school by the parents? Did anyone ever file a criminal suit? I would have called the cops and told them that several staff members forced my 13-yr-old daughter into a back room and forced her to strip for them...
they are the areas most likely to have people unable to competently apply judgment
Actually, while the above is often true I'd say that they're most often applied in areas where the victims of a "zero tolerance" policy are least likely to resist or fight back.
The current legal situation of right-invasion in US schools seems to support that. It also ingrains a "no matter how dumb, corrupt, or oppressive it seems, don't fight the system" mentality on today's youth.
A lot of people are suggestion that backups be encrypted and I assume they mean the actual files/volumes, but I *really* don't see the usefulness of this case. Encryption backups may protect the data from being stolen, but it isn't going to protect it from being *wiped* in most cases. If you have root access then assumedly there's also raw access to device the backups reside on, in which case you can still nuke it with something as simple as "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/backup"
Now maybe if the backup server further connects onward to a mass-storage device that isn't at-all accessible until logged-in, perhaps, but it doesn't seem a likely scenario for most cases.
Question: Is this looking at a single app or multiple? It seems fairly straightforward to me that most individual apps aren't going to see a huge boost from a hefty amount of cores, but multiple apps or threads/instances would probably see plenty.
Servers especially should be able to take advantage of this, where individual cores - just like multiple CPU's before - can handle multiple instances of a server daemon.
From what I've seen thus far, Unixy OS's handle SMP fairly well. I haven't touched windows webservers in awhile, but I'd imagine they might do well enough in that scenario too.
Translation: Not a big increase for your game/spreadsheet, but still some extra bang for multitasking. IO is still going to be a big bottleneck though.
Keep in mind also, though, that N America imports a *lot* of food products. Last time I heard, the USA wouldn't be able to sustain it's own population with the domestic supplies of food.
That being so, what's the chance that they'd be able to make enough biofuel plants to power the entire country in a reasonable amount of time? Seems like a good project for the Arabic regions, as they're no doubt got a lot of the resources (money, labor, and sun) to do it.
From what I've seen in many cases, while there is a lot of waste in the middle-east (as comes anywhere when you have unbelievable amounts of cash), a lot also goes into infrastructure and making the country more livable. Completely current out petroleum products isn't going to happy anyhow, but we can cut it out of vehicles and fuels, while they'll still be able to sell the product for different uses such as plastics etc.
No, but if in the contact it says that if you make a new building based on the design they made (or sell off copies based on the design to somebody else), then they get a share... then they do deserve to get paid. From reading the TFR (The F***ing Rant) it seems like this was more of the case.
Ummm. It seems that the matter at-hand is about the contract, and clauses stating he should be paid a portion of derivative works etc (but he hasn't been).
He's not bitching that he doesn't get paid because of the contract says he doesn't, he's bitching that the contract does state he should get paid, but he hasn't been.
None of the phones I've used have 'em. Any SMARTphone or PDA has, even as far back as some pretty ancient Palm and iPaq/PocketPC devices.
For the GGP to compare a phone and a smartphone is fairly nonsensical, as a smartphone is basically "PDA with phone" and in terms of features more along the PDA end of things in many cases.
Actually, they tried to call me up and sell me one of these. I think it was $300'ish for another few years for an all-inclusive warranty. The fine-print that they tried to skip past very quickly though, was that the TV+surround they wanted to "extend" had to be inspected at a regular interval (it was either yearly or bi-yearly). You could have somebody come in to do that at over a hundred bucks a pop, or bring your stuff into Sears and be unable to use it for a few days until they finished inspection.
Most extended warranties are pretty much a scam, but I do remember that Future Shop (now owned by Best Buy, but this was prior to that) was actually really good about their EW when a subwoofer I had warranteed blew. I brought it in, and they swapped it right away no questions asked. Sadly, I know people who have had laptop warranties with them and had a bad laptop spend half the first year in-and-out of the shop before the "three strikes" kicked in and they replaced the defective unit.
Yup, but those are still fair bit different from wearing offensive shirts (depending on what "offensive" is classified as), insulting co-workers, and generally being an ass.
However, "quirky" in the article seems to describe a case that's more "offensive", "arrogant" and/or "antisocial."
I know plenty of quirky programmers. They do things in odd ways and are good out-of-the-box thinkers, but they're not jerks with a god complex. Whether with sysadmins or devs, you usually tend to get a bit of a "I know better than you" attitude (and often enough it's true), but a god-complex or arrogance is not a good thing.
The line between confidence and a stand-up-for-my-work attitude (good) versus arrogance and I-can-do-no-wrong, is sometimes pretty thin. You don't want somebody who's going to question his/her own work and make dumb decisions due to pressure, but you don't want somebody who's going to deliberately offend/abuse co-workers and otherwise ignore anyone else's advice.
Well, my question would be, if you had been writing a bunch of letters to friends/family/etc, could the supeona those in a civil trial
The internet *is* a different reality, but not necessarily in a good way. In real-life, every little thing you do isn't as likely to be logged away waiting for somebody to dig up the sordid details of your life...
Actually, you can set filters right in apache, at least at a country-level (I haven't tried cities).
For example, some sites like the block China/Russia because of the massive number of hack-attempts and lame SPAM that come from those countries. I've not tried blocking anything *not* from a given region, but I'd imagine is should be doable in a similar way.
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If you can afford some things that are worth stealing (big TV, laptop, etc), you can probably afford at least some of the above. Most people gamble on it being cheaper to bet against not being robbed though.
And as the neighborhood is described as "affluent", I think that the people in this case could probably afford some decent security.
Is that age tends to weed out the those with more "beauty than talent."
Give it a decade or two, and the "pretty faces" have for the most-part faded off, and more of those with actual talent (or good connections) are left.
The current generated of "pretty faces" just hasn't had enough time to be trimmed down yet.
Yes, and a lot of those developers are happy to sit back, examine creative criticism, and fix problems.
However, the ones that are generally the most noticeable are the ones that bitch and rant and generally make everyone else look bad.
Pretty much par for any group though, not just linux users/developers.
The X-Men series has been pretty good thus far (OK, the third not quite so good as the first two).
I'm plenty willing to pay and see this one, as opposed to an unfinished download that some dork posted up online.
And for the record, I do hope they catch whomever did this.
Poor nutrition due to being less able to avoid proper foods. Poor working conditions (take what jobs you can get). Drug/alcohol/abuse issues.
Plenty of poor conditions tend to come along with the overall situation of "poverty"
Dave: "Hal, open the washroom door, now!"
HAL 9k: "I can't do that, Dave"
Dave: "Geeze HAL. I really have to crap, now!"
HAL 9k: "Then you shouldn't have eaten the Russian's bean burritos Dave, you know what those do to you!"
Dave: "Aarrrrrggghhh"
the bozo in the other political party is out to destroy America as we know it.
Given the corruption, apathy, and abuse-of-power in the current US system, destroying America "as we know it" is not a bad idea. Perhaps doing so and then rebuilding it "as its forefathers intended" (and accounting for current situations) might be a good plan.
That reminds me of a case once, where a woman charged her "partner" with rape after feeling guilty of the act.
The courtroom conversation went something like:
a. And did Ms X ever say no to proceeding with the sexual act.
b. She said something to the effect of "no, we shouldn't be doing this, oh no"
a. And why did you not take this to mean that she was unwilling to engage in a sexual act with you
b. She was removing my pants while she was saying it.
Um, kinda how I read the title, the summary, and even TFA?
Yes, encryption may have prevented access to the actual data in the backups, provided one set things up to mount the encrypted volume when backing up, without having a password somewhere the cracker could see it.
However, if you had read *MY* comment, other than the title, I was referring to the issues of having the backups wiped-out and/or gaining access to the production servers (it was not indicated that this was done through data in the backups themselves).
From a point of saving the user's data,encryption is a smart idea in general. From a point of preventing your backups from being nuked, I still fail to see how it helps.
A body-cavity search perhaps?
And no, that's not a joke. If they don't think a strip-search of a 13-year-old is invasive, I shudder to think at what they do...
Seems to me that even a parent/family-member forcing a 13-year-old girl to strip for them - especially down to the point of revealing genitalia - would be looking at possible criminal child-abuse, exploitation, or other such charges. Why not school staff?
One thing I haven't quite figured out yet. This seems to be a civil suit against the school by the parents? Did anyone ever file a criminal suit? I would have called the cops and told them that several staff members forced my 13-yr-old daughter into a back room and forced her to strip for them...
they are the areas most likely to have people unable to competently apply judgment
Actually, while the above is often true I'd say that they're most often applied in areas where the victims of a "zero tolerance" policy are least likely to resist or fight back.
The current legal situation of right-invasion in US schools seems to support that. It also ingrains a "no matter how dumb, corrupt, or oppressive it seems, don't fight the system" mentality on today's youth.
A lot of people are suggestion that backups be encrypted and I assume they mean the actual files/volumes, but I *really* don't see the usefulness of this case. Encryption backups may protect the data from being stolen, but it isn't going to protect it from being *wiped* in most cases. If you have root access then assumedly there's also raw access to device the backups reside on, in which case you can still nuke it with something as simple as "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/backup"
Now maybe if the backup server further connects onward to a mass-storage device that isn't at-all accessible until logged-in, perhaps, but it doesn't seem a likely scenario for most cases.
Question: Is this looking at a single app or multiple? It seems fairly straightforward to me that most individual apps aren't going to see a huge boost from a hefty amount of cores, but multiple apps or threads/instances would probably see plenty.
Servers especially should be able to take advantage of this, where individual cores - just like multiple CPU's before - can handle multiple instances of a server daemon.
From what I've seen thus far, Unixy OS's handle SMP fairly well. I haven't touched windows webservers in awhile, but I'd imagine they might do well enough in that scenario too.
Translation: Not a big increase for your game/spreadsheet, but still some extra bang for multitasking. IO is still going to be a big bottleneck though.
Keep in mind also, though, that N America imports a *lot* of food products. Last time I heard, the USA wouldn't be able to sustain it's own population with the domestic supplies of food.
That being so, what's the chance that they'd be able to make enough biofuel plants to power the entire country in a reasonable amount of time? Seems like a good project for the Arabic regions, as they're no doubt got a lot of the resources (money, labor, and sun) to do it.
From what I've seen in many cases, while there is a lot of waste in the middle-east (as comes anywhere when you have unbelievable amounts of cash), a lot also goes into infrastructure and making the country more livable. Completely current out petroleum products isn't going to happy anyhow, but we can cut it out of vehicles and fuels, while they'll still be able to sell the product for different uses such as plastics etc.
No, but if in the contact it says that if you make a new building based on the design they made (or sell off copies based on the design to somebody else), then they get a share... then they do deserve to get paid. From reading the TFR (The F***ing Rant) it seems like this was more of the case.
Ummm. It seems that the matter at-hand is about the contract, and clauses stating he should be paid a portion of derivative works etc (but he hasn't been).
He's not bitching that he doesn't get paid because of the contract says he doesn't, he's bitching that the contract does state he should get paid, but he hasn't been.
Video works fine with some third-party apps, but so far the ones I've seen require a hacked phone.
None of the phones I've used have 'em. Any SMARTphone or PDA has, even as far back as some pretty ancient Palm and iPaq/PocketPC devices.
For the GGP to compare a phone and a smartphone is fairly nonsensical, as a smartphone is basically "PDA with phone" and in terms of features more along the PDA end of things in many cases.
Actually, they tried to call me up and sell me one of these. I think it was $300'ish for another few years for an all-inclusive warranty. The fine-print that they tried to skip past very quickly though, was that the TV+surround they wanted to "extend" had to be inspected at a regular interval (it was either yearly or bi-yearly). You could have somebody come in to do that at over a hundred bucks a pop, or bring your stuff into Sears and be unable to use it for a few days until they finished inspection.
Most extended warranties are pretty much a scam, but I do remember that Future Shop (now owned by Best Buy, but this was prior to that) was actually really good about their EW when a subwoofer I had warranteed blew. I brought it in, and they swapped it right away no questions asked. Sadly, I know people who have had laptop warranties with them and had a bad laptop spend half the first year in-and-out of the shop before the "three strikes" kicked in and they replaced the defective unit.
Yup, but those are still fair bit different from wearing offensive shirts (depending on what "offensive" is classified as), insulting co-workers, and generally being an ass.
However, "quirky" in the article seems to describe a case that's more "offensive", "arrogant" and/or "antisocial."
I know plenty of quirky programmers. They do things in odd ways and are good out-of-the-box thinkers, but they're not jerks with a god complex. Whether with sysadmins or devs, you usually tend to get a bit of a "I know better than you" attitude (and often enough it's true), but a god-complex or arrogance is not a good thing.
The line between confidence and a stand-up-for-my-work attitude (good) versus arrogance and I-can-do-no-wrong, is sometimes pretty thin. You don't want somebody who's going to question his/her own work and make dumb decisions due to pressure, but you don't want somebody who's going to deliberately offend/abuse co-workers and otherwise ignore anyone else's advice.
Well, my question would be, if you had been writing a bunch of letters to friends/family/etc, could the supeona those in a civil trial
The internet *is* a different reality, but not necessarily in a good way. In real-life, every little thing you do isn't as likely to be logged away waiting for somebody to dig up the sordid details of your life...
Actually, you can set filters right in apache, at least at a country-level (I haven't tried cities).
For example, some sites like the block China/Russia because of the massive number of hack-attempts and lame SPAM that come from those countries. I've not tried blocking anything *not* from a given region, but I'd imagine is should be doable in a similar way.