Not at all -- In a networked environment this panel can be remotely managed via group policy. The panel is disabled when a group policy is overriding the settings to make it clear to the user that they aren't in control.
I had the same thoughts about the distance sucking... But then, I can't remember the last time I used any of my bluetooth devices more then 6' apart.
It's just handy to not have to carry a cable to connect my headset, phone and Palm together, or to be able to sit down in front of my PC and access pictures from my phone without playing with a cable.
I said that on a trip just over a year ago when traveling into the US... The only questions were just about whether or not I had a job to come back to, and if so, if I was really taking a month off (I was)
Heck, you have 20 people willing and able, train them as snipers and set them loose one in each of the 15 largest cities around the US, with the other five to be shipped into cities as the first five are captured, to make it look like there is more then one sniper in each city.
They'll probably do a better job at causing confusion and fear then anything an airline attack will ever cause.
Consider this: A patch to an OS or popular application comes out. The patch is subject to peer review before public release, the hash is published. 30 seconds after the public release happens, I replace the file on one of the mirrors (and NOT the hash -- I don't control the main site, only a mirror or two) with a malicious version with the same hash.
Consider bittorrent -- If you could quickly and easily generate new data that matches a known hash, you could join any torrent you want as a seed, but distribute bad data that passes the hash. Your peers wouldn't know any different and would pass the bad data on to their peers too, essentially polluting the entire torrent. Wouldn't the RIAA love that?
Neither of these are possible yet, but being able to generate different content (even if random, it doesn't even need to be malicious code or English words) could be useful in some cases.
Well... There is one point in securing databases...
Just because some ass-clown didn't bother to take precautions doesn't mean that everyone is that stupid.
I shred everything from dilbert to pizza flyers to credit reports, if someone wants to go to the effort of reassembling bags of cross-cut shredded paperwork, great, I figure I should give them some laughs, and some suggestions for where to eat while they work.
In other words, if that guy's information is stolen from a database, it's probably not a big deal, he's leaving it accessible on the street anyway, but if MY information is stolen, there are good odds it wasn't from my garbage...
# v. 0.9 -- Did not print blank sheet # v. 1.0 -- Printed slightly non-blank sheet. # v. 1.1 -- Printed all black sheet -- getting closer! # v. 1.2 -- Fire! # v. 1.3 -- Printed text to "O Solo Mio", don't understand why. # v. 1.4 -- New version 50% more blank. # v. 1.5 -- Improved speed, 62% faster. # v. 1.6 -- "unitray" support -- eliminated need to retrieve paper from output tray,
My g/f lived in a Chicago suburb until she was 19 and she'd never heard of or seen anything like that. When I was visiting I was surprised how difficult it was to find an ATM with 24/7 access, other then gas stations or hotels, it usually meant standing in the drive through.
Unless the BIOS maintains a log of the last time it was booted...
There are desktops which can report if their case was opened, even while powered off. While I've yet to see a laptop that does the same, who is to say that they don't exist?
Only if you don't otherwise need the heat. In the winter I have a boiler heating a radiator in every room except my computer room, it heats itself.
This means I use less gas (non-renewable) and more electricity (generated via hydro) then another average tenant in this location.
I've been debating looking for some sort of external temperature monitor that my computer can use to automatically turn the distributed computing projects on and off, but without success yet.
Worse, with todays communication systems, you wouldn't need to come back either, as soon as the first tank makes it through the rest could start out immediately, so it's entirely possible that it would be impossible to manually deploy mines between the test run and the real assult.
They don't need to detonate if they can be safely detected, deactivated and removed.
This is different. Right now, all you really need to do to find a clear path is drive through, if you make it then any one following will have a clear path. If you don't make it, then at least part way the path is clear, the rubble will need to be removed and you can try again.
With mines that move themselves, it's not so easy.
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If it doesn't, you won't be here to bitch about it.
So? Is it your computer, or your college's computer?
What a horrible link... Bite sized information spread over seven pages and it STILL needs scrolling.
Not at all -- In a networked environment this panel can be remotely managed via group policy. The panel is disabled when a group policy is overriding the settings to make it clear to the user that they aren't in control.
Gigabyte has allowed updates from the BIOS itself for at least 5 years... See the screenshot for details
I had the same thoughts about the distance sucking... But then, I can't remember the last time I used any of my bluetooth devices more then 6' apart.
It's just handy to not have to carry a cable to connect my headset, phone and Palm together, or to be able to sit down in front of my PC and access pictures from my phone without playing with a cable.
Yes. If you've ever tried to power up a laptop with someone in the same room sleeping, you'd understand why.
Or on a plane, or in a library, or in a meeting, or wherever else.
Congrats on the 404...
I said that on a trip just over a year ago when traveling into the US... The only questions were just about whether or not I had a job to come back to, and if so, if I was really taking a month off (I was)
Once I said yes and yes, it was all good.
Heck, you have 20 people willing and able, train them as snipers and set them loose one in each of the 15 largest cities around the US, with the other five to be shipped into cities as the first five are captured, to make it look like there is more then one sniper in each city.
They'll probably do a better job at causing confusion and fear then anything an airline attack will ever cause.
Say, like an airport security check point?
Perhaps... But not always.
Consider this: A patch to an OS or popular application comes out. The patch is subject to peer review before public release, the hash is published. 30 seconds after the public release happens, I replace the file on one of the mirrors (and NOT the hash -- I don't control the main site, only a mirror or two) with a malicious version with the same hash.
Consider bittorrent -- If you could quickly and easily generate new data that matches a known hash, you could join any torrent you want as a seed, but distribute bad data that passes the hash. Your peers wouldn't know any different and would pass the bad data on to their peers too, essentially polluting the entire torrent. Wouldn't the RIAA love that?
Neither of these are possible yet, but being able to generate different content (even if random, it doesn't even need to be malicious code or English words) could be useful in some cases.
Yeah, you really can't beat that!
Well... There is one point in securing databases...
Just because some ass-clown didn't bother to take precautions doesn't mean that everyone is that stupid.
I shred everything from dilbert to pizza flyers to credit reports, if someone wants to go to the effort of reassembling bags of cross-cut shredded paperwork, great, I figure I should give them some laughs, and some suggestions for where to eat while they work.
In other words, if that guy's information is stolen from a database, it's probably not a big deal, he's leaving it accessible on the street anyway, but if MY information is stolen, there are good odds it wasn't from my garbage...
Of course, they don't know that much of the basic
security in Linux predates Linux.
But we try to not let facts get in the way of a good pro-Linux rant...
No -- Like Linux, Microsoft is mimicing the behaviour of older, more secure, multi-user OSes.
The version history isn't bad either...
# v. 0.9 -- Did not print blank sheet
# v. 1.0 -- Printed slightly non-blank sheet.
# v. 1.1 -- Printed all black sheet -- getting closer!
# v. 1.2 -- Fire!
# v. 1.3 -- Printed text to "O Solo Mio", don't understand why.
# v. 1.4 -- New version 50% more blank.
# v. 1.5 -- Improved speed, 62% faster.
# v. 1.6 -- "unitray" support -- eliminated need to retrieve paper from output tray,
My g/f lived in a Chicago suburb until she was 19 and she'd never heard of or seen anything like that. When I was visiting I was surprised how difficult it was to find an ATM with 24/7 access, other then gas stations or hotels, it usually meant standing in the drive through.
I believe that IS what passes for witty on /.
Unless the BIOS maintains a log of the last time it was booted...
There are desktops which can report if their case was opened, even while powered off. While I've yet to see a laptop that does the same, who is to say that they don't exist?
But it is costing your customers money...
Only if you don't otherwise need the heat. In the winter I have a boiler heating a radiator in every room except my computer room, it heats itself.
This means I use less gas (non-renewable) and more electricity (generated via hydro) then another average tenant in this location.
I've been debating looking for some sort of external temperature monitor that my computer can use to automatically turn the distributed computing projects on and off, but without success yet.
Worse, with todays communication systems, you wouldn't need to come back either, as soon as the first tank makes it through the rest could start out immediately, so it's entirely possible that it would be impossible to manually deploy mines between the test run and the real assult.
They don't need to detonate if they can be safely detected, deactivated and removed.
This is different. Right now, all you really need to do to find a clear path is drive through, if you make it then any one following will have a clear path. If you don't make it, then at least part way the path is clear, the rubble will need to be removed and you can try again.
With mines that move themselves, it's not so easy.
Likely inside, last I heard the vast majority of all theft happens as a result of dissatisfied employees.
However, it's likely still cheaper to deal with that loss then to make your employees happy.