Not enough, cause they still haven't impeached him, or you know, made ANY EFFORT TO REIGN HIM IN.
In all fairness, the Democrats aren't exactly doing anything significant in that regard either. Unless you count taking impeachment "off the table", or making a token gesture of disagreement before caving in on essentially everything the Emperor has decided.
Do any of them even remotly deal with the same thing i.e. sending a message over a known monitored device that sounds innocent? I ask because your examples sure don't.
A repeated low level format is a cake walk for him because there is no alternation of the bit pattern.
I've heard that same story before, and I used to take it at its word, until someone pointed out that there are no documented cases of it, just hearsay. Where are the published accounts that describe a controlled process by which data on a verified low-level-formatted drive was recovered, and what the data was?
It's the adventure of DOING stuff with the things that is important, not the things themselves.
The things are important because they provide a tangible link between the events they represent and people who weren't present for them. I wasn't even born when the XB-70 program was underway, but when I visited the Air Force Museum and saw the one remaining prototype, it made all of the things I'd read about it more real to me. None of us (other than the vampires) were alive when the ancient trading routes in the Black Sea were in use, but the artifacts discovered there by Robert Ballard help us understand more about them. Obviously some things aren't practical to keep around - fleets of obsolete aircraft carriers, for example. But a single cyclotron? What's so important that they need to put in its place?
However, for the average person, it's good enough as it raises the bar for recovery beyond simply plugging it it or simply repairing a part of the drive. Don't know why you need a product for it though, a 1/4" drillbit will go through the aluminum backside of most harddrives like butter.
So does a simple low-level format. Unless you can cite any actual cases of data being recovered from a low-level-formatted drive that involve modern (IE *not* MFM) drives.
I'm sure it depends on what community your data is sampled from.
In the business world, most copies are probably legitimate. Hobbyists and amateurs probably have bootleg copies (aside from the serious hobbyists who feel compelled to buy one), because Adobe prices it as a business tool. Plain old Photoshop CS3 is US$650 for the full version. "Extended" is US$999. If you want the whole Creative Suite, it ranges from US$1199 to US$2499. I do photography as a hobby, and my camera (a secondhand D70) cost less than $650.
Exercising is a waste of time. I don't need to be strong and it takes way too many hours to be strong. I'm not fat or anything, I'm 18 and like 120 pounds or something, bones brittle as balsa wood but we're not cavemen anymore, we don't have to hit each other with clubs. Strength is irrelevant.
If you join the military, you will very likely be put in situations not that different from hitting someone with a club.
If you do most anything outside in the real world (landscaping or construction around one's house comes to mind), strength is most certainly relevant. I imagine this is even more true for those who serve in the military.
It's also not all about strength (of your voluntary muscles, at least). Part of the reason I run is because it's good for my heart - if your heart is in good shape, a lot of things are easier and you will generally live longer. Having more energy and sleeping better means that I more than make up for the three hours + overhead that I "lose" to running each week.
There is also the commitment/self-discipline aspect I mentioned before - if someone can't overcome their lack of interest in exercise, how are they going to overcome their lack of interest in the even less exciting/appealing aspects of being in the military?
I don't actually expect an 18-year-old computer nerd to buy this line. I certainly didn't when I was 18. I'm just saying there are a lot of good reasons to exercise, particularly for people in the military.
SCP also doesn't allow things like directory listings. While that may be advantageous in some situations, it rules it out as a full FTP replacement. SFTP and FTP-over-SSL are the two main public protocols I'm aware of that allow that kind of thing.
Exercising is not that hard. It just requires a commitment to keep doing it regularly. I'm a hacker who's not even in the military and I go running for an hour three times a week because being in decent shape comes in handy sometimes, it means I have more energy, and it helps me sleep better. Being in the military is a serious commitment. If someone can't even keep a commitment to something trivial like exercising, how can they be depended upon in a situation where lives are at stake?
That's ok - he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
Seconded.
Also, based on the people I've known with military experience, I'm sure the General would have a lot more to say off the record. If he'd said anything at all controversial in a public interview, the press would have had a field day with it - "Air Force Places Budget Before Security, Says General Lord", "Air Force General Claims That Omaha Is An Isolated Outpost Stranded In The Desolate Wasteland of Middle America In Comparison To Sunny Louisiana's Beaches And Fine Cooking", "Rogue General Believes The Military Should Set Foreign Policy Instead of Civilians", that kind of thing.
Those are competing technologies, incompatible with each other, and also not available on the same platforms (Flash & Java pretty much everywhere,.NET and Silverlight only where Microsoft sees fit).
In all fairness, that is true of nearly all competing products. For example, the PS3 is incompatible with Wii software and hardware. Honda engine components are generally incompatible with Ford engines. A flathead screwdriver is incompatible with Robertson screws. 4000-series CMOS ICs use logic levels that are different than 7400-series TTL ICs. Etc.
Even within the Linux world there are subsets of incompatibilities - GTK+ versus Qt, and so on.
Obviously Microsoft's intent with Silverlight is to try and crush Flash like they crushed Netscape (and like they failed to crush PDF with XPS). But I do agree with the grandparent that competition is good - otherwise the dominant company or companies in a particular market end up becoming complacent, stagnant, and arrogant (e.g. Cisco, Microsoft themselves in many cases, Bell Telephone, etc.).
Doesn't that also mean that Linux is also vulnerable to Apples firewire design faults?
I'd also be curious to know if the Playstation 2 is vulnerable. It's older technology now, but it would still be pretty cool to be able to have R/W access to its RAM.
What gets me are middle lane drivers that drive at 90km/h, when the right hand lane is free, forcing everyone to over-take (ok), or under-take (not ok)
On anything more than a two-lane freeway, I tend to stay one lane left of the rightmost lane for two reasons:
- If I am in the right lane, I get tailgated by people who want to drive well over the speed limit and are heading for the exit. - If I am in the right lane and it becomes an exit-only lane in heavy traffic, it is often a huge hassle to merge left, and if it takes long enough I could end up preventing people from using the exit.
I do stay out of the left-side lanes unless I am legitimately passing someone, however.
It is hard to say what is better, a long password that has fewer obscure characters, or a shorter password that has a strict password quality policy.
It is not hard at all to say when discussing Windows systems. Passwords of less than 15 characters can be trivially cracked by OphCrack - no matter how complex they are, assuming the attacker has the appropriate rainbow tables. Passwords greater than that length cannot be cracked this way.
Yes, passwords can be trivially cracked on good hardware and administrator access to a Domain Controller. You know what? Lock down that Admin access and don't let 80% of your company be Domain/Local admins.
Or you could require 15+ character passphrases and essentially eliminate the problem altogether, along with there being no real reason to force your users to use anything other than lowercase letters.
Agreed. Cisco won't even let you download the latest (I use that term loosely) firmware for their old 675 and 678 DSL routers without a service contract. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Still, fluorescent tubes not only cause me to have seizures, but they also produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light.
They do? I mean, I know they do internally, but it should all be absorbed by the inside coating and the glass of the tube. That's why the kind that are used for sterilization are made from quartz - it doesn't block UVC like glass does.
Here's a tip: The US is not the entire world, and companies sell to the rest too. Try telling everyone here in Africa that "in 5-10 years it will be virtual [sic] impossible to go 'offline'", I'm sure it'll be good for a laugh.
Even in the US it's laughable. There are huge chunks of the country where there is no cellular service. I know a lot of Slashdot's readership doesn't go camping or drive through the middle of nowhere, but it's important to realize that not everyone lives like that. Using a network to get data is great. Depending on it as the sole source of data for things like navigation (or worse yet, the navigation application itself) is stupid.
How would punching a small hole in the outer plastic sleeve of a diskette have any sort of effect on reliability?
Using a DD disk as an HD disk by punching the extra hole did in fact lower the reliability considerably - not because punching the hole did anything to the media, but because the media was not designed for that density of data. I ran into this myself years ago when I discovered that all of the disks I'd done this to were no longer readable, whereas the actual HD floppies still were.
As others have said, this does not apply to the single-to-double-sided thing, only to DD-to-HD.
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Not enough, cause they still haven't impeached him, or you know, made ANY EFFORT TO REIGN HIM IN.
In all fairness, the Democrats aren't exactly doing anything significant in that regard either. Unless you count taking impeachment "off the table", or making a token gesture of disagreement before caving in on essentially everything the Emperor has decided.
Do any of them even remotly deal with the same thing i.e. sending a message over a known monitored device that sounds innocent? I ask because your examples sure don't.
Sending vacation photos which contain tiny encrypted steganographic messages doesn't look innocent?
A repeated low level format is a cake walk for him because there is no alternation of the bit pattern.
I've heard that same story before, and I used to take it at its word, until someone pointed out that there are no documented cases of it, just hearsay. Where are the published accounts that describe a controlled process by which data on a verified low-level-formatted drive was recovered, and what the data was?
It's the adventure of DOING stuff with the things that is important, not the things themselves.
The things are important because they provide a tangible link between the events they represent and people who weren't present for them. I wasn't even born when the XB-70 program was underway, but when I visited the Air Force Museum and saw the one remaining prototype, it made all of the things I'd read about it more real to me. None of us (other than the vampires) were alive when the ancient trading routes in the Black Sea were in use, but the artifacts discovered there by Robert Ballard help us understand more about them.
Obviously some things aren't practical to keep around - fleets of obsolete aircraft carriers, for example. But a single cyclotron? What's so important that they need to put in its place?
However, for the average person, it's good enough as it raises the bar for recovery beyond simply plugging it it or simply repairing a part of the drive. Don't know why you need a product for it though, a 1/4" drillbit will go through the aluminum backside of most harddrives like butter.
So does a simple low-level format. Unless you can cite any actual cases of data being recovered from a low-level-formatted drive that involve modern (IE *not* MFM) drives.
Why would we need street lights with a very strong light source using the same spectrum as the sun?
Street lights give a dingy yellow or pink tinge to everything. I've seen a few areas that are lit by ~6500K lights at night, and they look much nicer.
I'm sure it depends on what community your data is sampled from.
In the business world, most copies are probably legitimate. Hobbyists and amateurs probably have bootleg copies (aside from the serious hobbyists who feel compelled to buy one), because Adobe prices it as a business tool. Plain old Photoshop CS3 is US$650 for the full version. "Extended" is US$999. If you want the whole Creative Suite, it ranges from US$1199 to US$2499. I do photography as a hobby, and my camera (a secondhand D70) cost less than $650.
So would have cutting off your hands. Does that mean it would have been the right thing to do?
Exercising is a waste of time. I don't need to be strong and it takes way too many hours to be strong. I'm not fat or anything, I'm 18 and like 120 pounds or something, bones brittle as balsa wood but we're not cavemen anymore, we don't have to hit each other with clubs. Strength is irrelevant.
If you join the military, you will very likely be put in situations not that different from hitting someone with a club.
If you do most anything outside in the real world (landscaping or construction around one's house comes to mind), strength is most certainly relevant. I imagine this is even more true for those who serve in the military.
It's also not all about strength (of your voluntary muscles, at least). Part of the reason I run is because it's good for my heart - if your heart is in good shape, a lot of things are easier and you will generally live longer. Having more energy and sleeping better means that I more than make up for the three hours + overhead that I "lose" to running each week.
There is also the commitment/self-discipline aspect I mentioned before - if someone can't overcome their lack of interest in exercise, how are they going to overcome their lack of interest in the even less exciting/appealing aspects of being in the military?
I don't actually expect an 18-year-old computer nerd to buy this line. I certainly didn't when I was 18. I'm just saying there are a lot of good reasons to exercise, particularly for people in the military.
SCP also doesn't allow things like directory listings. While that may be advantageous in some situations, it rules it out as a full FTP replacement. SFTP and FTP-over-SSL are the two main public protocols I'm aware of that allow that kind of thing.
Exercising is not that hard. It just requires a commitment to keep doing it regularly. I'm a hacker who's not even in the military and I go running for an hour three times a week because being in decent shape comes in handy sometimes, it means I have more energy, and it helps me sleep better.
Being in the military is a serious commitment. If someone can't even keep a commitment to something trivial like exercising, how can they be depended upon in a situation where lives are at stake?
That's ok - he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
Seconded.
Also, based on the people I've known with military experience, I'm sure the General would have a lot more to say off the record. If he'd said anything at all controversial in a public interview, the press would have had a field day with it - "Air Force Places Budget Before Security, Says General Lord", "Air Force General Claims That Omaha Is An Isolated Outpost Stranded In The Desolate Wasteland of Middle America In Comparison To Sunny Louisiana's Beaches And Fine Cooking", "Rogue General Believes The Military Should Set Foreign Policy Instead of Civilians", that kind of thing.
Those are competing technologies, incompatible with each other, and also not available on the same platforms (Flash & Java pretty much everywhere, .NET and Silverlight only where Microsoft sees fit).
In all fairness, that is true of nearly all competing products. For example, the PS3 is incompatible with Wii software and hardware. Honda engine components are generally incompatible with Ford engines. A flathead screwdriver is incompatible with Robertson screws. 4000-series CMOS ICs use logic levels that are different than 7400-series TTL ICs. Etc.
Even within the Linux world there are subsets of incompatibilities - GTK+ versus Qt, and so on.
Obviously Microsoft's intent with Silverlight is to try and crush Flash like they crushed Netscape (and like they failed to crush PDF with XPS). But I do agree with the grandparent that competition is good - otherwise the dominant company or companies in a particular market end up becoming complacent, stagnant, and arrogant (e.g. Cisco, Microsoft themselves in many cases, Bell Telephone, etc.).
Is the site Java based? Dump that trash, because only bitches use Java.
I didn't know Lil Jon worked in the tech industry. I suddenly feel the need to crunk-enable all of my servers.
Doesn't that also mean that Linux is also vulnerable to Apples firewire design faults?
I'd also be curious to know if the Playstation 2 is vulnerable. It's older technology now, but it would still be pretty cool to be able to have R/W access to its RAM.
What gets me are middle lane drivers that drive at 90km/h, when the right hand lane is free, forcing everyone to over-take (ok), or under-take (not ok)
On anything more than a two-lane freeway, I tend to stay one lane left of the rightmost lane for two reasons:
- If I am in the right lane, I get tailgated by people who want to drive well over the speed limit and are heading for the exit.
- If I am in the right lane and it becomes an exit-only lane in heavy traffic, it is often a huge hassle to merge left, and if it takes long enough I could end up preventing people from using the exit.
I do stay out of the left-side lanes unless I am legitimately passing someone, however.
Things might be different in your country.
It is hard to say what is better, a long password that has fewer obscure characters, or a shorter password that has a strict password quality policy.
It is not hard at all to say when discussing Windows systems. Passwords of less than 15 characters can be trivially cracked by OphCrack - no matter how complex they are, assuming the attacker has the appropriate rainbow tables. Passwords greater than that length cannot be cracked this way.
Yes, passwords can be trivially cracked on good hardware and administrator access to a Domain Controller. You know what? Lock down that Admin access and don't let 80% of your company be Domain/Local admins.
Or you could require 15+ character passphrases and essentially eliminate the problem altogether, along with there being no real reason to force your users to use anything other than lowercase letters.
The drive would be quite easy to make. Two sub-critical pieces of plutonium plus a small charge to bind them.
Plus you could use it as an emergency radioactive boat anchor in a pinch.
heats their body to like a million kelvins and melt them.
That extra 273 degrees makes the critical difference between this approach and lesser celsius-based systems.
Agreed. Cisco won't even let you download the latest (I use that term loosely) firmware for their old 675 and 678 DSL routers without a service contract. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Could both this *and* dark [x] be explained by gravitons reaching our brane from other branes in the bulk?
Still, fluorescent tubes not only cause me to have seizures, but they also produce huge amounts of ultraviolet light.
They do? I mean, I know they do internally, but it should all be absorbed by the inside coating and the glass of the tube. That's why the kind that are used for sterilization are made from quartz - it doesn't block UVC like glass does.
Here's a tip: The US is not the entire world, and companies sell to the rest too. Try telling everyone here in Africa that "in 5-10 years it will be virtual [sic] impossible to go 'offline'", I'm sure it'll be good for a laugh.
Even in the US it's laughable. There are huge chunks of the country where there is no cellular service. I know a lot of Slashdot's readership doesn't go camping or drive through the middle of nowhere, but it's important to realize that not everyone lives like that. Using a network to get data is great. Depending on it as the sole source of data for things like navigation (or worse yet, the navigation application itself) is stupid.
How would punching a small hole in the outer plastic sleeve of a diskette have any sort of effect on reliability?
Using a DD disk as an HD disk by punching the extra hole did in fact lower the reliability considerably - not because punching the hole did anything to the media, but because the media was not designed for that density of data. I ran into this myself years ago when I discovered that all of the disks I'd done this to were no longer readable, whereas the actual HD floppies still were.
As others have said, this does not apply to the single-to-double-sided thing, only to DD-to-HD.