What on earth am I going to be doing on the home computer that requires me to encrypt the hard drive contents?
Hint: Nothing!
I'm already having issues with Windows not allowing me access into certain directories. 'Not authorized...' But encrypting things is just asking for trouble.
Once my current computer dies, the next computer will be running Ubuntu. I've just had it with Microsoft.
Immediately move my accounts to another financial institution. Not only have they not dealt with the security threat, they have no procedure in place to immediately escalate security threats.
I have an older Samsung that can be hooked up to the internet via a lan cable but does not have wifi. I have never hooked it up to the 'net and never will, but once the televisions come with wifi it will be impossible to maintain privacy around the things.
Ok, you and the wife are at the theatres. You are texting the babysitter who is posing as your three year old daughter. You do this, in a rare moment of 'I never do this during the previews but my three year old is being very funny', during the previews.
An older gentlemen behind you tells you to turn the cellphone off. You note he is angry.
At what point do you think to yourself, "I can take this old geriatric in my sleep", and tell him to frak off?
Geriatric goes to find a manager. He comes back managerless.
At what point do you think to yourself, "I'm going to take this old geriatric outside," and ask grandpa if he told tales to management on you?
At what point do you throw your bag of popcorn at him?
Me, I think you'd probably tell the geriatric you were sorry, it is your three year old daughter, possibly make like you were worried about her, and put the phone away.
This doesn't excuse the geriatric bringing a gun to a theatre and shooting someone to death, I just think you'd behave better than the dead gentleman did.
You've got one jerk, oblivious to the danger he's in as he texts on his cellphone, versus another jerk who in a dementia-filled rage thinks he entitled to shoot someone.
The ex-cop stalked another texting patron a week earlier; he's a menace to society and needs to be locked up permanently.
But this is also another case of someone being oblivious to all else around them as their focus is solely on their mini-computer. You don't throw a bag of popcorn at someone or ask them if they told management on them if the other person is in a rage. Neither gentlemen did anything to de-escalate the situation.
Thank God there was another cop in the theatre to stop anyone else from getting shot.
This is why I like my iphone. Everything I need personally from a laptop I can get from the iphone (I don't bank via computer as I don't trust my machines to be 100% secure (working assumption: if it is connected to the internet it is already insecure)). Plus the iphone is lightweight so it can be tucked into a pocket.
Either your current IT guy is a Fool or your company is too small to cower in terror before the Orbanes Soxley Act. And no, I am NOT joking or exaggerating in regards to big businesses response to that freaking Act.
Seizing servers means *nothing* if proper backups are made, with tapes archived offsite. Offsite, archived tapes means the servers can be recreated at will.
Which means there probably aren't any tapes. And if there are, relocate them out of the State, make backups of them, then relocate the backups.
And I'm not required to watch the drek the movie'll be.
But even if every bit of onscreen violence is taken out, the main idea that mankind has almost been obliterated and is now being hunted by remorseless machines is adult and not all that suitable for kids.
HDTV broadcast over the air is not compressed, the picture is phenomenal, and the subscription fee consists of purchasing an antenna.
Otherwise I'd recommend going satellite. I had HDTV, free 6 month offer, from the local cable provider and the compression was horrific. HDTV from satellite is a world better if that's your only other way to get a signal. But over the air is by far the best available.
Is funny, except for Pirates of the Caribbean, there's nothing out on Blu-Ray that makes me want to rush out and purchase a unit.
BSG season one on HD-DVD was the reason why I purchased a Toshiba A2, and now that I have the unit, I'm by no means unhappy with it. And from what I hear, it'll be two years before Universal releases any BSG titles to Blu-Ray. Unless some awesome fantastic tv series - *hint* FIREFLY */hint* - gets released to Blu-Ray I'll be a late adopter of the format.
It was the first season BSG box set on HD-DVD that made me buy a HD-DVD player, an investment I don't regret. If, in time, Blu-Ray wins the format war I'll hunt down a PS3 on sale.
It's legal in Canada - you can rip a cd or dvd that you borrow from a friend for your own uses. You may not make a copy of your rips for your friend. An argument could be made that the guardian of a child may undertake such activities on the behalf of that child.
There was a court ruling on this up here a few years ago. YMMV in the US.
The owner contracts with the city's water supply for X amount of water to be provided to their home. The owner leaves the outside hose on overnight and Y amount of water trickles down to the road where it eventually drains into a public drain. Your dog drinks from that trickle down to the public drain and you allow it do so, but only on public property.
The cops charge you with dishonestly obtaining the house owner's water.
The house owner in the wireless case should be charged with leaving their wifi router on 24/7 without securing the access by either turning off SSID broadcast or entering in a password. There should be more emphasis on getting these wifi routers secured seeing as these routers routinely trespass onto public property. Those who use unsecured access *from the street* should not be charged with 'dishonestly obtaining'.
It's been six months since my mother's family doctor determined there *may* be an issue, to when she was finally able to get the damn test so the medical expert could either confirm and get treatment underway or deny the initial diagnosis. And this was the waiting period for the serious stuff. If you need knee surgery, expect to wait a year or two before getting it.
Universal medical care? Sure.
Timely medical care? No.
Up here, eventually everyone gets the test/operation/treatment, one just has to survive long enough/endure enough hardship to get the test/operation/treatment. Or you could hop the border and get tested/treated in the U$.
Both the US and the Canadian systems are flawed. The best system would be a mix of both, and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda to push.
C'mon, this is the BBC that spouted this drivel. This is the same BBC that attempted to eviscerate the IKEA guy because he wasn't having IKEA immediately follow/obey the latest politically-correct fad of the week. Oh, and his politely repeated refusal to take the company public had the interviewer just hysterical at the injustice of it all.
It must be a slow news day in p.c. land or something.
Landline phone is $20, or $30 for a voip phone Broadband Internet: $52.95 Monthly Service Fee (plus $3.00/mth modem rental or $99.95 modem purchase plus taxes) for 6Mbps. This is the super-deluxe, couldn't possibly get any faster speed, and the frakkers choke back the speed if they detect you're using encryption or ssl. TV: $50 without HD, $100 for the basic HD package, $120 for the deluxe HD package, add in an extra $20 for the movie network.
Me, I just want to get HD without having to pay for every frakking NTSC cable channel in existance and renting/purchasing a HDTV cable box. If it wasn't for Battlestar Galactica, I'd cancel all of the services with Robbers, er Rogers.
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What on earth am I going to be doing on the home computer that requires me to encrypt the hard drive contents?
Hint: Nothing!
I'm already having issues with Windows not allowing me access into certain directories. 'Not authorized ...' But encrypting things is just asking for trouble.
Once my current computer dies, the next computer will be running Ubuntu. I've just had it with Microsoft.
Not updating Firefox ever again. Any recommendations for other browsers?
Immediately move my accounts to another financial institution. Not only have they not dealt with the security threat, they have no procedure in place to immediately escalate security threats.
I have an older Samsung that can be hooked up to the internet via a lan cable but does not have wifi. I have never hooked it up to the 'net and never will, but once the televisions come with wifi it will be impossible to maintain privacy around the things.
I had someone get mad at me for using my cellphone BEFORE the previews (lights were still on in the theatre). I'm just glad I put the phone away.
Ok, you and the wife are at the theatres. You are texting the babysitter who is posing as your three year old daughter. You do this, in a rare moment of 'I never do this during the previews but my three year old is being very funny', during the previews.
An older gentlemen behind you tells you to turn the cellphone off. You note he is angry.
At what point do you think to yourself, "I can take this old geriatric in my sleep", and tell him to frak off?
Geriatric goes to find a manager. He comes back managerless.
At what point do you think to yourself, "I'm going to take this old geriatric outside," and ask grandpa if he told tales to management on you?
At what point do you throw your bag of popcorn at him?
Me, I think you'd probably tell the geriatric you were sorry, it is your three year old daughter, possibly make like you were worried about her, and put the phone away.
This doesn't excuse the geriatric bringing a gun to a theatre and shooting someone to death, I just think you'd behave better than the dead gentleman did.
You've got one jerk, oblivious to the danger he's in as he texts on his cellphone, versus another jerk who in a dementia-filled rage thinks he entitled to shoot someone.
The ex-cop stalked another texting patron a week earlier; he's a menace to society and needs to be locked up permanently.
But this is also another case of someone being oblivious to all else around them as their focus is solely on their mini-computer. You don't throw a bag of popcorn at someone or ask them if they told management on them if the other person is in a rage. Neither gentlemen did anything to de-escalate the situation.
Thank God there was another cop in the theatre to stop anyone else from getting shot.
What would they have done if a bus had run him over and killed him the day before? Who would have been perceived as being at fault then?
This is why I like my iphone. Everything I need personally from a laptop I can get from the iphone (I don't bank via computer as I don't trust my machines to be 100% secure (working assumption: if it is connected to the internet it is already insecure)). Plus the iphone is lightweight so it can be tucked into a pocket.
Either your current IT guy is a Fool or your company is too small to cower in terror before the Orbanes Soxley Act. And no, I am NOT joking or exaggerating in regards to big businesses response to that freaking Act.
Seizing servers means *nothing* if proper backups are made, with tapes archived offsite. Offsite, archived tapes means the servers can be recreated at will.
Which means there probably aren't any tapes. And if there are, relocate them out of the State, make backups of them, then relocate the backups.
And I'm not required to watch the drek the movie'll be.
But even if every bit of onscreen violence is taken out, the main idea that mankind has almost been obliterated and is now being hunted by remorseless machines is adult and not all that suitable for kids.
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Dude, is there a defense fund a lowly slashdotter can contribute to?
Coors Light?
HDTV broadcast over the air is not compressed, the picture is phenomenal, and the subscription fee consists of purchasing an antenna.
Otherwise I'd recommend going satellite. I had HDTV, free 6 month offer, from the local cable provider and the compression was horrific. HDTV from satellite is a world better if that's your only other way to get a signal. But over the air is by far the best available.
Is funny, except for Pirates of the Caribbean, there's nothing out on Blu-Ray that makes me want to rush out and purchase a unit.
BSG season one on HD-DVD was the reason why I purchased a Toshiba A2, and now that I have the unit, I'm by no means unhappy with it. And from what I hear, it'll be two years before Universal releases any BSG titles to Blu-Ray. Unless some awesome fantastic tv series - *hint* FIREFLY */hint* - gets released to Blu-Ray I'll be a late adopter of the format.
http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=016825&cid=896
Asus EEE Notebook. Solid state hard drive (2gb, 4gb, 8gb), linux preloaded. Light. Small. Comes in groovy colours. Prices in Cdn start at $300.
Me too.
I'm happy with the hd-dvd unit I bought and the titles I own; the freakin picture is awesome.
When a blu-ray title comes out that I have to have, then I'll purchase a ps3 and the title. Until then, the whole format war is very meh.
It was the first season BSG box set on HD-DVD that made me buy a HD-DVD player, an investment I don't regret. If, in time, Blu-Ray wins the format war I'll hunt down a PS3 on sale.
It's legal in Canada - you can rip a cd or dvd that you borrow from a friend for your own uses. You may not make a copy of your rips for your friend. An argument could be made that the guardian of a child may undertake such activities on the behalf of that child.
There was a court ruling on this up here a few years ago. YMMV in the US.
The owner contracts with the city's water supply for X amount of water to be provided to their home. The owner leaves the outside hose on overnight and Y amount of water trickles down to the road where it eventually drains into a public drain. Your dog drinks from that trickle down to the public drain and you allow it do so, but only on public property.
The cops charge you with dishonestly obtaining the house owner's water.
The house owner in the wireless case should be charged with leaving their wifi router on 24/7 without securing the access by either turning off SSID broadcast or entering in a password. There should be more emphasis on getting these wifi routers secured seeing as these routers routinely trespass onto public property. Those who use unsecured access *from the street* should not be charged with 'dishonestly obtaining'.
It's been six months since my mother's family doctor determined there *may* be an issue, to when she was finally able to get the damn test so the medical expert could either confirm and get treatment underway or deny the initial diagnosis. And this was the waiting period for the serious stuff. If you need knee surgery, expect to wait a year or two before getting it.
Universal medical care? Sure.
Timely medical care? No.
Up here, eventually everyone gets the test/operation/treatment, one just has to survive long enough/endure enough hardship to get the test/operation/treatment. Or you could hop the border and get tested/treated in the U$.
Both the US and the Canadian systems are flawed. The best system would be a mix of both, and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda to push.
C'mon, this is the BBC that spouted this drivel. This is the same BBC that attempted to eviscerate the IKEA guy because he wasn't having IKEA immediately follow/obey the latest politically-correct fad of the week. Oh, and his politely repeated refusal to take the company public had the interviewer just hysterical at the injustice of it all.
It must be a slow news day in p.c. land or something.
In Canada:
Landline phone is $20, or $30 for a voip phone
Broadband Internet: $52.95 Monthly Service Fee (plus $3.00/mth modem rental or $99.95 modem purchase plus taxes) for 6Mbps. This is the super-deluxe, couldn't possibly get any faster speed, and the frakkers choke back the speed if they detect you're using encryption or ssl.
TV: $50 without HD, $100 for the basic HD package, $120 for the deluxe HD package, add in an extra $20 for the movie network.
Me, I just want to get HD without having to pay for every frakking NTSC cable channel in existance and renting/purchasing a HDTV cable box. If it wasn't for Battlestar Galactica, I'd cancel all of the services with Robbers, er Rogers.