What's best is when they put the sensor on the inside of a window at about ass-height. If your RFID card is in your wallet in your back pocket, all you have to do is press your ass up against the window to get into the building.
So swiping your ass against the sensor would be a "butt-wipe"?
There is surprisingly little security-by-obscurity involved, and lots of things like 3DES and rotating keys uploaded from the till on a regular basis, and stuff like that.
Darn, we have registers over here, so I guess this won't work.
The first rule of risk management is that the amount of time, effort, and money that you spend on security should be proprortional to the probability of a breach times the amount of damage it would cause. I guess Louisana didn't get the memo.
Actually, they did get the memo years ago. But they thought that the first rule of risk management is don't talk about risk management.
Two, does anyone know what kind of funding the NSA gets these days? I remember a news report a couple years back that said they were deeply out of date with hardware and so forth.
The whole point of getting an Apple is a rock-solid operating system, and rock-solid hardware. Why would Apple care if people put their OS on a crappy white-box x86? It's not like Apple has to support x86.
Organisations that continue to put the brand at their epicentre and pay only lip service to the notion that the customer is king, will fail. It's just a matter of time.
Here's an idea. Instead of asking a bunch of unqualified geeks, let's look to the world for best practices.
I can anticipate an argument here. "But different countries have different cultures and emphasize different things!" Answer: public education's purpose, at least partially, is to brainwash children to follow a culture. So it doesn't matter what US culture is. Insourcing (ba-ding! +1 buzzword) the best practices will just result in our children getting the best education along with the culture that supports the best education.
The difference between WiFi and the car/house analogy is that a WiFi hotspot broadcasts its information, inviting connections.
And a doorknob broadcasts its information visually, inviting hand-turning and opening. What you've got a hold of there, is intentionally confusing two senses of a word, in this case "inviting". Like this:
Some dogs are fuzzy doofuses.
My dog is some dog.
Therefore, my dog is a fuzzy doofus.
So they put all this time and effort into AI-powered interactive fiction. And then they go and make it a story about fighting about a failed marriage. Do you think the developers had some issues here?
Essentially, the Court ruled that, if you sell or market a product/service, and the key point of your marketing plan is that the product enables users to do something illegal, you can be held liable for the results of their actions.
Well, now all the **AA has to do is get SCOTUS to agree that even if you explicitly stated that copyright infringement was illegal, and you never explicitly advertised that your device was good for copyright infringement, then it should be obvious that since a copyright infringement society has grown up around the device, the developer was secretly planning that all along!
I have trouble imagining what kind of economic efficiency, or society, we will have when a (relative) handful of people own everything, and the rest of us are serfs.
I'm sure candlemakers would have been unhappy, but most as a whole would have looked at it as if it were a boon. Not every village had its own chandler, after all.
+1: Surprising. Use of the world "chandler" in a contextually correct sentence.
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Alexander Noé: Considering that Plextor did, not long ago, announce that they would be supporting open-source, I really wonder what all this is supposed to be about. Either they support open-source, or at least "tolerate" it, or they don't.
Telephone: Brrring! Brrrring!
Nikolaos: Hello? Yes? Yes, General. No, I never--... I didn't think that--... No, I'm not a terrorist! I just--... Guantanamo?! But I--... yes. Yes, I see. No problem. Yessir.
Nikolaos S. Karastathis: The interview appears to be finished. Thank you very much!
Even though from life experiences I know that Life Isnt Fair, and the playing field is never level, some of these teams get insane advantages.
Yeah, but that's part of the challenge. We know that throwing money at a problem doesn't always solve it, and sometimes the cheapest, dumbest solution is best. So imagine the embarassment of the high-rollers if they get beat out by a school that spent under $100k.
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So swiping your ass against the sensor would be a "butt-wipe"?
--Rob
Darn, we have registers over here, so I guess this won't work.
Sorry, I'm feeling very strange today.
--Rob
Because we all know that The Internet is For Porn!
--Rob
They did that back in the 60's, but nobody bought it.
--Rob
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Actually, they did get the memo years ago. But they thought that the first rule of risk management is don't talk about risk management.
--Rob
Come on. You know that report was a plant!
--Rob
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(glancing at watch) I'm still waiting...
--Rob
--Rob
I can anticipate an argument here. "But different countries have different cultures and emphasize different things!" Answer: public education's purpose, at least partially, is to brainwash children to follow a culture. So it doesn't matter what US culture is. Insourcing (ba-ding! +1 buzzword) the best practices will just result in our children getting the best education along with the culture that supports the best education.
At least, that's my nonprofessional opinion.
--Rob
And a doorknob broadcasts its information visually, inviting hand-turning and opening. What you've got a hold of there, is intentionally confusing two senses of a word, in this case "inviting". Like this:
Some dogs are fuzzy doofuses.
My dog is some dog.
Therefore, my dog is a fuzzy doofus.
--Rob
--Rob
--Rob
Well, now all the **AA has to do is get SCOTUS to agree that even if you explicitly stated that copyright infringement was illegal, and you never explicitly advertised that your device was good for copyright infringement, then it should be obvious that since a copyright infringement society has grown up around the device, the developer was secretly planning that all along!
--Rob
Feudalism?
--Rob
+1: Surprising. Use of the world "chandler" in a contextually correct sentence.
--Rob
LMAO & TTYL,
--Rob
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That's dogpower.
--Rob
Telephone: Brrring! Brrrring!
Nikolaos: Hello? Yes? Yes, General. No, I never--... I didn't think that--... No, I'm not a terrorist! I just--... Guantanamo?! But I--... yes. Yes, I see. No problem. Yessir.
--Rob
--Rob
--Rob
Yeah, but that's part of the challenge. We know that throwing money at a problem doesn't always solve it, and sometimes the cheapest, dumbest solution is best. So imagine the embarassment of the high-rollers if they get beat out by a school that spent under $100k.
--Rob