This will happen in the US. Count on it. It will serve two purposes.
1. National Security or some such crap.
2. Students have too much debt because of the degree bubble. Thus, they should be fast-tracked into employment to pay it off. Your 20+ years of experience with no degree? Back of the line with you and a mound of debt in tuition to boot.
AKA death panels. Insurance companies already act in this manor anyways. So the concept isn't anything new. But the problem does occur in how this now provides an alternate source of political power. Who lives, who dies. Oh and BTW, vote for me or my opponent will start killing children through bad policy. As you can see, it gets extreme ugly very quickly.
And this ladies and gentlemen, this why I'll never dive into the world of coding aside from minor batch editing with PS commandlets . As an infrastructure system administrator (server, network, workstation, phones act), you have my deepest sympathies. I don't know how you do it. All of those long hours in the night, new programming languages every time someone farts, fear of being outsourced, moving targets and scope creep. Hats off to you all. As far as I'm concerned, screw that!
I know where you going with this, and I would agree. Androids have a higher hardware failure rate than other phones. Unless the software is overlocking the CPU/GPU, you can't fix this with software so much.
The real question would be, do you support China invading the United States if they think we aren't free?
Interesting that you should ask that. The French helped Americans win the revolution and thus gained independence. Are you saying America should still have belonged to the British? Lets assume for a moment America has another Civil War or the entire nation is over run by "Nation-X". Yes, quite possible many Americans would welcome Chinese involvement irregardless of their motives for the greater good. I personally wouldn't trust them, but never say never.
Ahh, then you're in favor of nations such as N. Korea enslaving and oppressing their own people. Gotcha. I'm so glad we got that cleared up. Because God forbid we be against the destruction of that sovereign nation. Right? If you do not stand by to free man from the clutches of another man, you are by choice, the very type of person you so much despise.
Your mind is broken. Fix it! For your own sake and that of others. Please.
They're not my ideas. It's purely scientific observation of human behavior today, and our recorded historical past. Your anger toward me is misplaced. Acceptance of factual data in fact should pave way for long-lasting cultural philosophies and methodologies of how people and live and grow together. Such concepts may range from ideologies that are liberal or extremely conservative. But the truth should always provide a baseline to which certain behavioral traits must be either confronted or avoided all together. But the true enemy of man is ignorance. If we as a species do not accept our true nature, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past that often lead to the downfall of civilization.
As an individual, I'm not without fault. I see myself as an inherently evil and vile being at the core when left unchallenged. To look ones self into the mirror of pure truth is truly a terrifying experience. Knowing this, I now have a better understanding of what not to be. I choose to live transcended beyond the pull of nature. I choose to put my mind over matter. And if you're honest with yourself, you will know just how hard and difficult this endeavor is with humility.
That's more true of national and international media, but less so of local and state. I would say that the real problem isn't so much the fact-checking, but rather the omittance of supportive facts. You have to understand news outlets such as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC are ran like any other business. Not only do they have journalists and anchormen, but members in marketing and other MBA types looking generate more revenue. So, I contend the notion that these mega-corps create controversy in improve the ratings. All done within a span of a few hours. A packaged product all wrapped up in a pretty little bow for the general clueless population to consume. This creates more chaos and thus a perpetual feed fest of news to both -create- and report upon.
The nature of man. From a cultural aspect you can subdue it, but only for a limited time before it too becomes eroded and corrupted with our true genetic nature. It's the ultimate battle of mind over matter. The force of nature that moves chemistry, DNS, and ultimately our genetic predisposition will always be at the heart of human civilization. And as nature has proven through evolution, only the strong survive to displace the meek. In the end, violence wins out in whatever form it make take. Be it at the tip of a sword, barrel of a gun, or receiving end of a thermonuclear warhead.
In short, yes. We can't change much as you think we can. You can obfuscate human nature, but you can't really change the end results much. Unless you want to do something profoundly radical such as re-write the human genome, perhaps.
A little known inconvenient truth. The world always has, and will continue to have empires and nations of super power status. Now that we got that out of the way, ask yourself this. WHO would you rather have this title?
I've only used TrueCrypt in two instances. First being a file container in which I could mount and store stuff. The other in which I provisioned a USB drive to store data. With regarding the last option, I was aways nagged about the flash drive not being formatted and proceeds to ask me if I wish to do so. So my wife finds the sucker and formats thinking it was up for grabs. Though I am curious. Does TruCrypt anticipate the drive being encrypted by reading a certain set of LBA blocks? Is it something in the MBR? Just how obvious is the hidden container when viewing the drive raw with a hex editor?
Noooo. Don't do that. You'll create a China Syndrome effect. The problem is now you also have to model that issue too. Do they even make itty bitty Cadbury Cream Eggs?
Or they offered help to save humanity. We accepted the offer. In return, the wipe out 99% of the population only leaving what they consider desirable traits to repopulate the Earth. Their thinking in terms of millions of years, not hours, days, or weeks. So from that vantage point, they could very well have delivered a gift to our species and not the individual. Be careful what you ask for and offers you accept.
Oh really? ONLY Americans??!! If anyone ever finds out there is alien on their own or the info gets leaked (and it will in a nanosecond), everyone and their mother will be probing for information. Granted, 600LY delay in communications is the deal breaker. But assuming they were a lot closer, nations will make every attempt to trade for exotic technologies.
Ohhh yaaaa, get ready for those Fake AVs to pop-up warning users of an infection. Fun times ahead! In all seriousness though, I do feel your pain. Trust me. I too have to deal with similar setups that involve viewing invoices inside of IE. Don't ask, it's all part of the customers CRM package provided by Netsuite.
Perhaps you already know what I'm about to say, but for those that don't I'll offer some advice anyways. There are some simple steps you can do to at least minimize the threat. All of which require some spending if you wish to do it right. First, get a firewall (such as a SonicWALL for example) that will provide content filtering and anti-virus protection though the TCP/IP stack. Alternatively, you can use OpenDNS to block highjacked DNS entries that are known for redirecting you to a source of malware. Second, filter your e-mail through a 3rd party vendor. I've had pretty good luck with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. Also restrict in-bound SMTP traffic to only the IP ranges of your filtering vendor.
Provided you've implemented the following above, you would have cut down on at least 90% of your sources of known malware. For the remaining 10%, employee education through orientation, GPOs, local Anti-Virus, and restricting the users to non-administrative access to a computer will minimize impact if not prevent an infection all together. In several offices that I manage for my clients whom have an employee count of 60+, I haven't seen a virus infection in over a year. And they sling e-mails back and forth in copious amounts. Though I do have a few cheap clients that get infected at least once every month. Being pro-active and keeping employees educated provides a night and day difference in security.
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It should be noted that I do not agree with the two statements above. Just making a point how the feds will justify this kind of behavior.
This will happen in the US. Count on it. It will serve two purposes.
1. National Security or some such crap.
2. Students have too much debt because of the degree bubble. Thus, they should be fast-tracked into employment to pay it off. Your 20+ years of experience with no degree? Back of the line with you and a mound of debt in tuition to boot.
AKA death panels. Insurance companies already act in this manor anyways. So the concept isn't anything new. But the problem does occur in how this now provides an alternate source of political power. Who lives, who dies. Oh and BTW, vote for me or my opponent will start killing children through bad policy. As you can see, it gets extreme ugly very quickly.
The big factor here is stress. Meditation is a good method for reducing stress substantially as it's well know how it effects the brain physically.
And this ladies and gentlemen, this why I'll never dive into the world of coding aside from minor batch editing with PS commandlets . As an infrastructure system administrator (server, network, workstation, phones act), you have my deepest sympathies. I don't know how you do it. All of those long hours in the night, new programming languages every time someone farts, fear of being outsourced, moving targets and scope creep. Hats off to you all. As far as I'm concerned, screw that!
I can do better. How about an original Slashdot story. Android phones more prone to hardware problems
I know where you going with this, and I would agree. Androids have a higher hardware failure rate than other phones. Unless the software is overlocking the CPU/GPU, you can't fix this with software so much.
Interesting that you should ask that. The French helped Americans win the revolution and thus gained independence. Are you saying America should still have belonged to the British? Lets assume for a moment America has another Civil War or the entire nation is over run by "Nation-X". Yes, quite possible many Americans would welcome Chinese involvement irregardless of their motives for the greater good. I personally wouldn't trust them, but never say never.
Oohh, what if this drone was meant to be captured? A Trojan pegasus if you will.
You kidding, right?! Ok, I'm going to have to call you out on this (head asplodes in disbelief). Cite please.
Better have a gyro on board as the GPS signal could also be jammed around it.
To be fair, I'm sure they will eventually reach their zenith again. But, it wont be tomorrow or the day after. That's for sure.
Ahh, then you're in favor of nations such as N. Korea enslaving and oppressing their own people. Gotcha. I'm so glad we got that cleared up. Because God forbid we be against the destruction of that sovereign nation. Right? If you do not stand by to free man from the clutches of another man, you are by choice, the very type of person you so much despise.
Your mind is broken. Fix it! For your own sake and that of others. Please.
They're not my ideas. It's purely scientific observation of human behavior today, and our recorded historical past. Your anger toward me is misplaced. Acceptance of factual data in fact should pave way for long-lasting cultural philosophies and methodologies of how people and live and grow together. Such concepts may range from ideologies that are liberal or extremely conservative. But the truth should always provide a baseline to which certain behavioral traits must be either confronted or avoided all together. But the true enemy of man is ignorance. If we as a species do not accept our true nature, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past that often lead to the downfall of civilization.
As an individual, I'm not without fault. I see myself as an inherently evil and vile being at the core when left unchallenged. To look ones self into the mirror of pure truth is truly a terrifying experience. Knowing this, I now have a better understanding of what not to be. I choose to live transcended beyond the pull of nature. I choose to put my mind over matter. And if you're honest with yourself, you will know just how hard and difficult this endeavor is with humility.
Your hostility towards me only proves my point, sadly.
That's more true of national and international media, but less so of local and state. I would say that the real problem isn't so much the fact-checking, but rather the omittance of supportive facts. You have to understand news outlets such as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC are ran like any other business. Not only do they have journalists and anchormen, but members in marketing and other MBA types looking generate more revenue. So, I contend the notion that these mega-corps create controversy in improve the ratings. All done within a span of a few hours. A packaged product all wrapped up in a pretty little bow for the general clueless population to consume. This creates more chaos and thus a perpetual feed fest of news to both -create- and report upon.
The nature of man. From a cultural aspect you can subdue it, but only for a limited time before it too becomes eroded and corrupted with our true genetic nature. It's the ultimate battle of mind over matter. The force of nature that moves chemistry, DNS, and ultimately our genetic predisposition will always be at the heart of human civilization. And as nature has proven through evolution, only the strong survive to displace the meek. In the end, violence wins out in whatever form it make take. Be it at the tip of a sword, barrel of a gun, or receiving end of a thermonuclear warhead.
In short, yes. We can't change much as you think we can. You can obfuscate human nature, but you can't really change the end results much. Unless you want to do something profoundly radical such as re-write the human genome, perhaps.
As an American, I agree with you. We've got to get our house in order...and our senate.
A little known inconvenient truth. The world always has, and will continue to have empires and nations of super power status. Now that we got that out of the way, ask yourself this. WHO would you rather have this title?
I've only used TrueCrypt in two instances. First being a file container in which I could mount and store stuff. The other in which I provisioned a USB drive to store data. With regarding the last option, I was aways nagged about the flash drive not being formatted and proceeds to ask me if I wish to do so. So my wife finds the sucker and formats thinking it was up for grabs. Though I am curious. Does TruCrypt anticipate the drive being encrypted by reading a certain set of LBA blocks? Is it something in the MBR? Just how obvious is the hidden container when viewing the drive raw with a hex editor?
Noooo. Don't do that. You'll create a China Syndrome effect. The problem is now you also have to model that issue too. Do they even make itty bitty Cadbury Cream Eggs?
Worse. They might force our star to go super nova. Why take out a species when you can take out an entire solar system. Big boom. Big badda boom!
Or they offered help to save humanity. We accepted the offer. In return, the wipe out 99% of the population only leaving what they consider desirable traits to repopulate the Earth. Their thinking in terms of millions of years, not hours, days, or weeks. So from that vantage point, they could very well have delivered a gift to our species and not the individual. Be careful what you ask for and offers you accept.
Oh really? ONLY Americans??!! If anyone ever finds out there is alien on their own or the info gets leaked (and it will in a nanosecond), everyone and their mother will be probing for information. Granted, 600LY delay in communications is the deal breaker. But assuming they were a lot closer, nations will make every attempt to trade for exotic technologies.
Ohhh yaaaa, get ready for those Fake AVs to pop-up warning users of an infection. Fun times ahead! In all seriousness though, I do feel your pain. Trust me. I too have to deal with similar setups that involve viewing invoices inside of IE. Don't ask, it's all part of the customers CRM package provided by Netsuite.
Perhaps you already know what I'm about to say, but for those that don't I'll offer some advice anyways. There are some simple steps you can do to at least minimize the threat. All of which require some spending if you wish to do it right. First, get a firewall (such as a SonicWALL for example) that will provide content filtering and anti-virus protection though the TCP/IP stack. Alternatively, you can use OpenDNS to block highjacked DNS entries that are known for redirecting you to a source of malware. Second, filter your e-mail through a 3rd party vendor. I've had pretty good luck with Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange. Also restrict in-bound SMTP traffic to only the IP ranges of your filtering vendor.
Provided you've implemented the following above, you would have cut down on at least 90% of your sources of known malware. For the remaining 10%, employee education through orientation, GPOs, local Anti-Virus, and restricting the users to non-administrative access to a computer will minimize impact if not prevent an infection all together. In several offices that I manage for my clients whom have an employee count of 60+, I haven't seen a virus infection in over a year. And they sling e-mails back and forth in copious amounts. Though I do have a few cheap clients that get infected at least once every month. Being pro-active and keeping employees educated provides a night and day difference in security.