ICBW, but my understanding is that he was referring to an old Russian saying and that what he meant by that was that the Soviets would outlive the West. (That's why they'd be burying us; we'd have died out and there wouldn't be anybody else left to bury what was left.)
And, Khrushchev had nothing but praise for the Lend/Lease equipment that the US supplied via the Murmansk Run and across the Pacific. (After Pearl Harbor, of course, it was all shipped on Soviet freighters because the Japanese were very, very careful to leave them alone.)
Ship encrypted files on flash with instructions for them to call when the media arrives.
No. Not on flash. Flash can be intercepted and modified. Send it on a CD/DVD that's not rewritable, and send a hardcopy of the MD5 hash in a second package. Then, before running the update, calculate the hash and compare it by eye with the hardcopy. I won't say that it's impossible for anybody to slip an infection past this, but it's not going to be easy, especially if you send the two parts of the message by different companies.
Or, if I blow up a bunch of cargo ships carrying spaceship parts...
Actually, there should be some lag, until merchants find out what's happened, and the effect should expand gradually as the news spreads. And, that means you have a window of opportunity to buy up as much of those parts as you can before prices go up, assuming that you can get your instructions to your agents fast enough.
I can remember when there was a jumper that had to be properly set to allow firmware updates. I doubt they cost as much as a penny, and they couldn't get flipped by accident.
I followed that link you gave, and found something very, very interesting: the article is about transportation on an inland canal, not on the open sea, and it refers to goods transported by barge, not ship. There's a big difference, because many barges have no propulsion and are moved around by towboats.
*Shrug!* So set up a dual-boot system, defaulting to Linux. Linux can read/write Windows partitions quite well, TYVM, although the opposite isn't true. (There may be third-party software for that but if so, I'm not aware of it.)
The OP may have meant "nearing," instead of "past." One of the reasons we went through so many FAE weapons during Desert Storm is that they were close to their Best Use By date and it was cheaper to expend them in combat than pay to dispose of them.
And your point is? At least I included a link to the reference because even I don't expect most Slashdotters to recognize that one! (To be honest, what I remembered was the name of the island, and worked from there.)
And thus does opt-out rear its ugly head, yet again. Not only that, if what you write is true the average user won't even know that it's happening, that they can stop it or that they have any control whatsoever over what gets sent to the cloud. Now, consider what happens when you're on limited bandwidth and you get a bill for far more traffic than you can account for. If I ran Windows (I don't.) this would be one more reason for me to avoid Windows 10 like the plague.
I don't live out in the country, but I often have to drive country roads at night. Here in California, there's a white line marking the division between the road itself and the shoulder, and there's something built into the shoulder that makes it rumble when a car goes over it. This makes it much easier to stay on the road, even in rain or fog. (We don't get snow here, but I'd imagine that the sound from the shoulder would still work even if you couldn't see the line.)
I sit corrected. The article I used as a reference only told how to activate it on a working system, not how to make it active by default, and I misread. If you want it active at boot, you need to add the line kernel.sysrq = 1 to/etc/sysctl.conf.
If you expect to need it, create the file/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq with the contents set to 1. This makes the key combo active by default, and survives rebooting. Of course, you need to test it while the system's in good shape because different mobos respond to different combinations. (I had one, once that needed Left-Ctrl, Right-Alt and SysRQ to work, and only that combo worked.)
This morning I received the Administration's response to a petition to update the ECPA, agreeing that the law is seriously in need of updating and that the Administration is, "...encouraged by the strong bipartisan support for updating this legislation in both chambers of Congress..." and that they're looking forward to having the law address today's needs correctly.
It may be possible to install software without root access, but it won't be able to do any damage to your system files, or have access to lots of other stuff that malware likes to modify.
You just pay again when you buy your next computer.
But why should you have to buy a new computer just to run the latest version of your OS? Why should the hardware requirements increase that fast? Granted, I don't buy pre-made computers because I have a friend who's a much better hardware tech than I'd ever be even if I were interested in those things (I'm a software geek; he's hardware.) but I've gone through several upgrades of my distro (Fedora) without needing to buy any new hardware, and don't expect to need a better computer for years. Why do people accept so easily that upgrading Windows includes upgrading their hardware?
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ICBW, but my understanding is that he was referring to an old Russian saying and that what he meant by that was that the Soviets would outlive the West. (That's why they'd be burying us; we'd have died out and there wouldn't be anybody else left to bury what was left.)
And, Khrushchev had nothing but praise for the Lend/Lease equipment that the US supplied via the Murmansk Run and across the Pacific. (After Pearl Harbor, of course, it was all shipped on Soviet freighters because the Japanese were very, very careful to leave them alone.)
Ship encrypted files on flash with instructions for them to call when the media arrives.
No. Not on flash. Flash can be intercepted and modified. Send it on a CD/DVD that's not rewritable, and send a hardcopy of the MD5 hash in a second package. Then, before running the update, calculate the hash and compare it by eye with the hardcopy. I won't say that it's impossible for anybody to slip an infection past this, but it's not going to be easy, especially if you send the two parts of the message by different companies.
Or, if I blow up a bunch of cargo ships carrying spaceship parts...
Actually, there should be some lag, until merchants find out what's happened, and the effect should expand gradually as the news spreads. And, that means you have a window of opportunity to buy up as much of those parts as you can before prices go up, assuming that you can get your instructions to your agents fast enough.
Not unless it turns out to be the Goblin King. I'll tell you what: You Bash the Balrog and I'll climb the tree!
Also that he has a very reduced chance of transmitting his DNA to the next generation...
From where I'm sitting, that's not a problem. Do you really want smug, sanctimonious hypocrites like him swimming in the gene pool?
I can remember when there was a jumper that had to be properly set to allow firmware updates. I doubt they cost as much as a penny, and they couldn't get flipped by accident.
I followed that link you gave, and found something very, very interesting: the article is about transportation on an inland canal, not on the open sea, and it refers to goods transported by barge, not ship. There's a big difference, because many barges have no propulsion and are moved around by towboats.
Hooray, hooray, it's a lovely day,
For I have found my cow!
Yes, but what you're paying for there is support, not the OS itself.
*Shrug!* So set up a dual-boot system, defaulting to Linux. Linux can read/write Windows partitions quite well, TYVM, although the opposite isn't true. (There may be third-party software for that but if so, I'm not aware of it.)
No, no, no! It's Obi-Wan Torvald!
Windows 7; paid for, ad free, and I can control the updates.
Linux. Just as ad free, just as easy to control the updates and it doesn't cost one, red cent.
The OP may have meant "nearing," instead of "past." One of the reasons we went through so many FAE weapons during Desert Storm is that they were close to their Best Use By date and it was cheaper to expend them in combat than pay to dispose of them.
And your point is? At least I included a link to the reference because even I don't expect most Slashdotters to recognize that one! (To be honest, what I remembered was the name of the island, and worked from there.)
That course would have ended up at Zero Zero Island and Colonel Bleep had to take action to keep his headquarters secret.
(Data syncing by default)
And thus does opt-out rear its ugly head, yet again. Not only that, if what you write is true the average user won't even know that it's happening, that they can stop it or that they have any control whatsoever over what gets sent to the cloud. Now, consider what happens when you're on limited bandwidth and you get a bill for far more traffic than you can account for. If I ran Windows (I don't.) this would be one more reason for me to avoid Windows 10 like the plague.
I don't live out in the country, but I often have to drive country roads at night. Here in California, there's a white line marking the division between the road itself and the shoulder, and there's something built into the shoulder that makes it rumble when a car goes over it. This makes it much easier to stay on the road, even in rain or fog. (We don't get snow here, but I'd imagine that the sound from the shoulder would still work even if you couldn't see the line.)
So what's to stop you from editing that file right now so that if and when you need it, it's ready?
I sit corrected. The article I used as a reference only told how to activate it on a working system, not how to make it active by default, and I misread. If you want it active at boot, you need to add the line kernel.sysrq = 1 to /etc/sysctl.conf.
Microsoft Windows nearly single-handedly created the antivirus industry by neglecting security (and still does to this day).
Microsoft, yes Windows no. I can remember using McAffee anti-virus on MS-DOS long before I started using Windows.
If you expect to need it, create the file /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq with the contents set to 1. This makes the key combo active by default, and survives rebooting. Of course, you need to test it while the system's in good shape because different mobos respond to different combinations. (I had one, once that needed Left-Ctrl, Right-Alt and SysRQ to work, and only that combo worked.)
One thing for sure: that completely lets out Barry O'Bama.
Today, as a matter of fact.
This morning I received the Administration's response to a petition to update the ECPA, agreeing that the law is seriously in need of updating and that the Administration is, "...encouraged by the strong bipartisan support for updating this legislation in both chambers of Congress..." and that they're looking forward to having the law address today's needs correctly.
It may be possible to install software without root access, but it won't be able to do any damage to your system files, or have access to lots of other stuff that malware likes to modify.
You just pay again when you buy your next computer.
But why should you have to buy a new computer just to run the latest version of your OS? Why should the hardware requirements increase that fast? Granted, I don't buy pre-made computers because I have a friend who's a much better hardware tech than I'd ever be even if I were interested in those things (I'm a software geek; he's hardware.) but I've gone through several upgrades of my distro (Fedora) without needing to buy any new hardware, and don't expect to need a better computer for years. Why do people accept so easily that upgrading Windows includes upgrading their hardware?