Or mount the phone in windows and copy over. IIRC it was a bit more of a PITA to mount in Linux depending on the Android model, but I just generally pop the SDHC card and copy it via USB card-reader.
I sideline on PC repair, and I've fixed any number of systems. There may be very infrequent cases where a drive-by hijack occurred, generally when visiting dubious sites, but the most common by far are still plain ol' "clicked on a bad email", "installed file from some sketchy torrent" or even "trusted that guy on the phone who called from Microsoft" (the latter coming out in force again lately, but still not as common as email).
The third most common is ads posing as real software, e.g. when you Google X and the first couple links are sketchy versions of Y pretending to be X, or when you get to the actual download page but the big green "Download" link is actually an ad which downloads some BS executable. I think there needs to be a reckoning for ad-peddlers that let that last one through, as they're becoming more prevalent, and there is absolutely ZERO legitimate case for a big download-only link to unknown software. Some of these seem to be Google ads, and I'd love to see them take more heat for their part in this.
I have (paid) on-call shifts. I don't constantly check my phone's email - that's not required - but I always answer the ringer. It's still very handy to be able to quickly check your email on the phone and see a screenshot or email update after being notified of an incident.... doesn't mean you need to be checking it all the time though.It's also very useful to be able to tap out emails quickly on the phone when dealing with multiple persons in an active incident.
I wonder if there will be any reference to this in the "hacker" released Sony emails. Wouldn't it be delicious if some exec sent something like "fuck it, we'll use it anyways, we can always let the lawyers deal with her later"
One of the biggest issues with net-play between friends was NAT and getting ports open to allow people in.Yes, this can be alleviated by uPNP enabled routers etc, but that same feature can also be a security risk. As IPv4 shrinks though, it's likely we'll also see residential v4 addresses shrink to carrier-level NAT. This may be alleviated by IPv6, but it's been "coming" for a loooong time now, and the security configuration for that is still going to be hell for a lot of home users.
Most employers don't care which specific hotel you stay at, so long as it's within a particular budget. I doubt most employers are going to want employees staying at a hotel that - oh - blocks cellular signals for employees they're trying to contact, and I also doubt that IT employers are going to appreciate blocked wifi.
Honestly, I don't play a lot of Origin games (mostly steam, though they're similar in concept), but it's still a vast improvement over what I had previously in many cases. Multiple discs, serial keys, etc. My biggest complaint is the lack of multiplayer servers. At least with previous games of Battlefield etc you could host your own - on a Linux server even - but now you pretty much have to buy hosting and older games pretty much die out. That's more designed obsolescence than DRM though.
A few hours to get up, a few minutes to be sued into financial ruin.
Seriously, starting up the site is the easy part. Dealing with traffic is an issue, but not getting sued into oblivion is probably more of a concern, as it has been the fate of many once-popular filesharing sites. Even TPB never solved that particular issue.
At this point, a decentralized client with built-in encryption - maybe something that hooks into TOR - would probably be a better bet for people that want to engage in such activities.
The typing I miss, but I can live with a touchscreen. What I really want back from the old days is the battery life that earlier BB's etc used to have.
everyone that has engaged in threats and doxxing against anyone need to be tracked down and punished
It will be interesting to see whom turns up in this. While I don't disagree that there's misogyny on the internet, I'd say that a lot of the contenders are part of a more general problem: self-entitled assholes and trolls. People who have little interest in the politics in the situation but plenty of interest in seeking attention, or people who don't just have issues with women but generally shit upon "anyone who isn't me." I'm not a woman, but I've had plenty of people in various games who've resorted to threats and insults, often based on ethnicity or sexual preference (even when they don't actually apply to me). I'd imagine that if I was visibly a female then that would just be an additional category to the usual insults and churlish behavior.
Rooting out some of the bigger contenders will likely do little for either side of the issue, but I'll still cheer if a couple of these bastards face some consequences for the bullshit they seem to dedicate their life to.
And that's just for movies. If it's a game, you get DRM which - if you're lucky - may cause the game to crash. If you're not lucky, well, you get DRM which may cause your system to crash, or your optical drive to not function correctly, etc. If it's music, well Sony BMG have demonstrated their regard for paying customers there, haven't they.
Oh, and let's not forget, you'll only get those unskippable FBI warnings and trailers if your BD player is continually updated so that it is actually able to play the damn disc, but hey that's still better than if you bought a hard-to-find DVD from outside your player's region code
It's definitely a good though. Two areas where I could see this failing are: a) Where somebody has a legitimate need to haul large/heavy items. It's a fair response for a secretary or sysadmin, but not so much for a tradesperson due to tools etc b) Where there aren't any safe routes. Maybe it's 4 miles and two hours by car, but 20+ miles by bike (unless you want to take your chances with a bike in traffic). This often seems to be the case in many situations.
I'm guessing that the road grade is probably fairly flat, so it's not an issue of "4 miles uphill" going in one direction.
Whose well-being is at stake,exactly? I'm not even sure which side you're supporting.
Nobody is going to die if there's more traffic. Nobody is going to die if they have to take the freeway.
However, one issue I could see is that - depending on the design and composition of the roads - lots of traffic on streets not designed for it could have bad effects on infrastructure (of course, caused by poorly designed infrastructure in the first place).
I do believe you've been trolled. It was a fairly well-formed troll at that (in that it initially doesn't appear to be an aggressive attempt at trolling, but rather uninformed commentary), but still best not to feed them.
The biggest issue is that older people - who often either don't understand or don't care about much of this - vote for the conservative government that's currently in power. The younger demographic - who are getting thoroughly screwed by the current government in terms of less jobs, selling off of domestic natural resources, and increasing cost of education/housing/etc - don't seem to get out to vote. Now to be fair, some of this is due to the government screwing with the rules around voting (particularly around university students and where their voting locale is) but the biggest contributor is plain old laziness and apathy.
If you're a Canadian of voting age who is not happy with with the way things are currently going, and you DIDN'T VOTE, then you're part of the problem (not accusing the parent, just the lazy bastards in general).
I don't think that the GP was indicating the *project* was shady, but more likely many of the visible uses. Like many things, freedom affords benefits to both paragons and scoundrels, but the latter may often be more high-profile or visible.
So why give up a morally superior position to "fight" people who pose almost no threat to anyone outside their own countries?
a) Control of outside resources b) Distracting from internal strife c) Reason to spend money on military-industrial complex... which profits many of those who make these decisions.
Yeah. I do see some cool monoprice/dx.com/etc ads at times, but generally they're more "X found one easy trick to do Y and Z hates him/her for it", or when you're downloading software, there are billion fricking ads with big green malware-installing download links of various types, etc etc.
Who are the people complaining, because frankly I'd love to see them sued for deceptive and/or possibly fraudulent marketing.
For this, what I usually do is get the base machine setup (windows, drivers, common software, maybe antivirus, and activation), then boot from a linux stuck and back it all up using "NTFSclone" (usually piped through gzip/bzip). If windows takes a dive, then I just restore the image so I don't have to play phone-tag with the activation system. I did that when I was building a new system and at some point become unbootable after certain software/updates were installed. After many restores I was finally able to find what was breaking the system (a combination of a driver update and AVG, it seems) and made it work.
I'm afraid that, if I saw your resume after this, I'd reject it on the grounds of the horrible question without even having to consider the felony itself
Well thank goodness you're not my hiring manager. I would guess you're not a hiring manager at all, but - based on YOUR attitude - one of the basement sysadmins who feels like he is God of all technology and better than 99% of the rest of humanity.
The question isn't all that vague, and when reporting on a conviction one of the issues can be that there isn't much room for explanation. It's "[name] was convicted of X". So you may have a guy who's a convicted "sex offender" when all he really did was get drunk and relieve himself in sight of a playground at 1:00am. Unless you have a chance to explain yourself though - which often YOU WON'T, at least on form-based applications - then you probably aren't even getting to the interview.
I haven't any convictions myself, but I've seen some pretty dismally generic applications forms and "vague" pretty much fits them perfectly. Now, from a hiring perspective, yeah I'd feel a little nervous about working next to a convicted sex offender, but not so much the guy who peed on a tree... the problem being that most people aren't going to get past HR screening to the point where the details could even be discussed.
Honestly though, I can't think of a job where I haven't been "Available to occasionally work some evenings and weekends" and done so. The caveat is that I was generally paid accordingly for my contributions (either OT or banked at an accelerated rate).
In many IT positions, sometimes shit hits the fan and you need to stick around (or come back in). As long as it's not a constant thing it's not a huge deal.
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Or mount the phone in windows and copy over. IIRC it was a bit more of a PITA to mount in Linux depending on the Android model, but I just generally pop the SDHC card and copy it via USB card-reader.
"I don't not want to not install $foobar plugin"
One word. Java
Three other words: ask.com
Until Quantum viruses :-)
I sideline on PC repair, and I've fixed any number of systems. There may be very infrequent cases where a drive-by hijack occurred, generally when visiting dubious sites, but the most common by far are still plain ol' "clicked on a bad email", "installed file from some sketchy torrent" or even "trusted that guy on the phone who called from Microsoft" (the latter coming out in force again lately, but still not as common as email).
The third most common is ads posing as real software, e.g. when you Google X and the first couple links are sketchy versions of Y pretending to be X, or when you get to the actual download page but the big green "Download" link is actually an ad which downloads some BS executable. I think there needs to be a reckoning for ad-peddlers that let that last one through, as they're becoming more prevalent, and there is absolutely ZERO legitimate case for a big download-only link to unknown software. Some of these seem to be Google ads, and I'd love to see them take more heat for their part in this.
I have (paid) on-call shifts. I don't constantly check my phone's email - that's not required - but I always answer the ringer. It's still very handy to be able to quickly check your email on the phone and see a screenshot or email update after being notified of an incident.... doesn't mean you need to be checking it all the time though.It's also very useful to be able to tap out emails quickly on the phone when dealing with multiple persons in an active incident.
I wonder if there will be any reference to this in the "hacker" released Sony emails. Wouldn't it be delicious if some exec sent something like "fuck it, we'll use it anyways, we can always let the lawyers deal with her later"
One of the biggest issues with net-play between friends was NAT and getting ports open to allow people in.Yes, this can be alleviated by uPNP enabled routers etc, but that same feature can also be a security risk. As IPv4 shrinks though, it's likely we'll also see residential v4 addresses shrink to carrier-level NAT. This may be alleviated by IPv6, but it's been "coming" for a loooong time now, and the security configuration for that is still going to be hell for a lot of home users.
Most employers don't care which specific hotel you stay at, so long as it's within a particular budget. I doubt most employers are going to want employees staying at a hotel that - oh - blocks cellular signals for employees they're trying to contact, and I also doubt that IT employers are going to appreciate blocked wifi.
Honestly, I don't play a lot of Origin games (mostly steam, though they're similar in concept), but it's still a vast improvement over what I had previously in many cases. Multiple discs, serial keys, etc. My biggest complaint is the lack of multiplayer servers. At least with previous games of Battlefield etc you could host your own - on a Linux server even - but now you pretty much have to buy hosting and older games pretty much die out. That's more designed obsolescence than DRM though.
If I don't say "yes", the answer is NO. Period.
A few hours to get up, a few minutes to be sued into financial ruin.
Seriously, starting up the site is the easy part. Dealing with traffic is an issue, but not getting sued into oblivion is probably more of a concern, as it has been the fate of many once-popular filesharing sites. Even TPB never solved that particular issue.
At this point, a decentralized client with built-in encryption - maybe something that hooks into TOR - would probably be a better bet for people that want to engage in such activities.
The typing I miss, but I can live with a touchscreen. What I really want back from the old days is the battery life that earlier BB's etc used to have.
everyone that has engaged in threats and doxxing against anyone need to be tracked down and punished
It will be interesting to see whom turns up in this. While I don't disagree that there's misogyny on the internet, I'd say that a lot of the contenders are part of a more general problem: self-entitled assholes and trolls. People who have little interest in the politics in the situation but plenty of interest in seeking attention, or people who don't just have issues with women but generally shit upon "anyone who isn't me." I'm not a woman, but I've had plenty of people in various games who've resorted to threats and insults, often based on ethnicity or sexual preference (even when they don't actually apply to me). I'd imagine that if I was visibly a female then that would just be an additional category to the usual insults and churlish behavior.
Rooting out some of the bigger contenders will likely do little for either side of the issue, but I'll still cheer if a couple of these bastards face some consequences for the bullshit they seem to dedicate their life to.
And that's just for movies.
If it's a game, you get DRM which - if you're lucky - may cause the game to crash. If you're not lucky, well, you get DRM which may cause your system to crash, or your optical drive to not function correctly, etc.
If it's music, well Sony BMG have demonstrated their regard for paying customers there, haven't they.
Oh, and let's not forget, you'll only get those unskippable FBI warnings and trailers if your BD player is continually updated so that it is actually able to play the damn disc, but hey that's still better than if you bought a hard-to-find DVD from outside your player's region code
It's definitely a good though. Two areas where I could see this failing are:
a) Where somebody has a legitimate need to haul large/heavy items. It's a fair response for a secretary or sysadmin, but not so much for a tradesperson due to tools etc
b) Where there aren't any safe routes. Maybe it's 4 miles and two hours by car, but 20+ miles by bike (unless you want to take your chances with a bike in traffic). This often seems to be the case in many situations.
I'm guessing that the road grade is probably fairly flat, so it's not an issue of "4 miles uphill" going in one direction.
Whose well-being is at stake,exactly? I'm not even sure which side you're supporting.
Nobody is going to die if there's more traffic. Nobody is going to die if they have to take the freeway.
However, one issue I could see is that - depending on the design and composition of the roads - lots of traffic on streets not designed for it could have bad effects on infrastructure (of course, caused by poorly designed infrastructure in the first place).
I do believe you've been trolled. It was a fairly well-formed troll at that (in that it initially doesn't appear to be an aggressive attempt at trolling, but rather uninformed commentary), but still best not to feed them.
The biggest issue is that older people - who often either don't understand or don't care about much of this - vote for the conservative government that's currently in power. The younger demographic - who are getting thoroughly screwed by the current government in terms of less jobs, selling off of domestic natural resources, and increasing cost of education/housing/etc - don't seem to get out to vote. Now to be fair, some of this is due to the government screwing with the rules around voting (particularly around university students and where their voting locale is) but the biggest contributor is plain old laziness and apathy.
If you're a Canadian of voting age who is not happy with with the way things are currently going, and you DIDN'T VOTE, then you're part of the problem (not accusing the parent, just the lazy bastards in general).
No, because the majority of people visibly using cash are still doing so for legitimate/legal purposes.
I don't think that the GP was indicating the *project* was shady, but more likely many of the visible uses.
Like many things, freedom affords benefits to both paragons and scoundrels, but the latter may often be more high-profile or visible.
So why give up a morally superior position to "fight" people who pose almost no threat to anyone outside their own countries?
a) Control of outside resources
b) Distracting from internal strife
c) Reason to spend money on military-industrial complex... which profits many of those who make these decisions.
Yeah. I do see some cool monoprice/dx.com/etc ads at times, but generally they're more "X found one easy trick to do Y and Z hates him/her for it", or when you're downloading software, there are billion fricking ads with big green malware-installing download links of various types, etc etc.
Who are the people complaining, because frankly I'd love to see them sued for deceptive and/or possibly fraudulent marketing.
For this, what I usually do is get the base machine setup (windows, drivers, common software, maybe antivirus, and activation), then boot from a linux stuck and back it all up using "NTFSclone" (usually piped through gzip/bzip). If windows takes a dive, then I just restore the image so I don't have to play phone-tag with the activation system.
I did that when I was building a new system and at some point become unbootable after certain software/updates were installed. After many restores I was finally able to find what was breaking the system (a combination of a driver update and AVG, it seems) and made it work.
I'm afraid that, if I saw your resume after this, I'd reject it on the grounds of the horrible question without even having to consider the felony itself
Well thank goodness you're not my hiring manager. I would guess you're not a hiring manager at all, but - based on YOUR attitude - one of the basement sysadmins who feels like he is God of all technology and better than 99% of the rest of humanity.
The question isn't all that vague, and when reporting on a conviction one of the issues can be that there isn't much room for explanation. It's "[name] was convicted of X". So you may have a guy who's a convicted "sex offender" when all he really did was get drunk and relieve himself in sight of a playground at 1:00am. Unless you have a chance to explain yourself though - which often YOU WON'T, at least on form-based applications - then you probably aren't even getting to the interview.
I haven't any convictions myself, but I've seen some pretty dismally generic applications forms and "vague" pretty much fits them perfectly. Now, from a hiring perspective, yeah I'd feel a little nervous about working next to a convicted sex offender, but not so much the guy who peed on a tree... the problem being that most people aren't going to get past HR screening to the point where the details could even be discussed.
Honestly though, I can't think of a job where I haven't been "Available to occasionally work some evenings and weekends" and done so. The caveat is that I was generally paid accordingly for my contributions (either OT or banked at an accelerated rate).
In many IT positions, sometimes shit hits the fan and you need to stick around (or come back in). As long as it's not a constant thing it's not a huge deal.