The senator will of course avoid layoffs of citizens, but the companies will on their hand want to keep the people best suited to have an upper edge in the competition.
So there will be a conflict of interest here. The end result may be that if the Senator gets his will then there will be more offshore activities instead.
Make it punishable to try to market anything using hidden of forged numbers, and let that punishment also propagate to the company whose product is promoted.
I see plasmas as a technology that's going to pass since it will be superseded by other technologies. LCD and LED are growing and getting better for each generation.
So plasmas will go the same way as CRT:s and back-projection devices.
And they have condemned us all with that Autorun feature that has only caused headache for many of us.
They have also provided us with a scripting language that is prone to bugs and security holes, which caused the widespread Melissa virus.
Later we did see the SQL Slammer virus, which also used scripting technology.
And the SMB protocol that they have created may be useful for the purpose of sharing information between machines, but it's not designed to be safe in a way that allows it to be easily filtered in firewalls to select which services that may be passed through.
In Vista they provided us with the annoying UAC, which really wasn't that effective at all, and at the same time they also inserted features that silently replaced files that you did edit in a non-microsoft editor like Vim if that file happened to be located in certain places (try to configure Apache HTTPD under Vista Ultimate with Vim).
All in the name of making it simple for stupid users. It renders a certain validity of the statement "If you make something fool-proof only a fool will use it". And considering the general market coverage that Microsoft has today people in general are fools!
The old problem with multiple wipes depended on the fact that there were rather large tolerances, but modern drives are very close to limits caused by physics, which means that it's a lot harder to extract wiped data.
If the data also was encrypted it will probably be impossible to re-create since there always is a level of loss even at recovery. For unencrypted data this may not be a big problem and it can be rectified by hand, but for encrypted data it will upset the whole packet that was encrypted.
But in a majority of cases a single wipe will be sufficient when the hardware is sold as surplus, since it's not easy to track and find out if a certain drive contains anything of interest.
Actually - the AD support in Samba is a bit of old news, since that has been promoted before.
But it's still good news, especially since lately the configuration of Microsoft's softwares and platforms has started to get incredibly complex and very hard to penetrate - as well as configure in a secure way.
As far as I know any AD solution involving Samba is using OpenLDAP as backend, but I may be wrong.
I am using OpenLDAP in a project and I can just say that it's quirky to say the least and isn't very verbal about configuration errors unless you fiddle with it.
It's also a bit quirky with symmetrical replication, but it's not impossible to make it work.
But on the positive side - it's fast and relatively reliable if you manage to configure it right. You just have to be very patient with it.
At least a few people have declared that it's dead, so we will have to wait for a new incarnation of SOA. What that will be called is a different question.
Compared to Western Digital Seagate is doing well. At least you don't have a rattling piece of junk within 12 months...
It's just software, and if a firmware upgrade helps that should be it.
And hard disks do fail now and then - the bath tub curve is infamous.
In a few years we may only see flash disks, but storage problems will remain. Those disks will also wear out over time, but at least they will be a lot more resilient to physical abuse.
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Given enough incentive a bounty hunter may be able to take care of that.
Maybe if you have some other card that isn't a credit card, like some rebate card or so you can give them that number.
Will keep them busy for a few moments extra at least!
The senator will of course avoid layoffs of citizens, but the companies will on their hand want to keep the people best suited to have an upper edge in the competition.
So there will be a conflict of interest here. The end result may be that if the Senator gets his will then there will be more offshore activities instead.
The penalties for telemarketers are far too low.
Make it punishable to try to market anything using hidden of forged numbers, and let that punishment also propagate to the company whose product is promoted.
Another issue is - where was the crime committed?
Isn't that the case of the legal authorities where the crime was committed?
Ask a lawyer, it could prove interesting. If the lawyer smells a chance of winning a case it may be even more interesting.
But this means that you shall always have a backup of your work. A copying machine will do fine!
Another issue is that if it's connected with a cost then the risk of abuse of the IP search decreases.
I see plasmas as a technology that's going to pass since it will be superseded by other technologies. LCD and LED are growing and getting better for each generation.
So plasmas will go the same way as CRT:s and back-projection devices.
The problem with Spam is that it won't disappear, it will just change to adapt to the filters and find new annoying ways to get through.
The only way to get rid of spam is to get rid of the spammers permanently.
What we should worry about are the terrorists digging at dumps trying to collect samples of hazardous material buried long ago.
Oh yes - there are a lot of hidden features when it comes to different devices like USB devices.
Haven't you heard about the virus-infected photo frames and USB memories?
And disabling the Auto-run feature for a CD-ROM won't necessarily disable it for an USB memory or anything else that might be supported.
As noted in the CERT advisory, NoDriveTypeAutorun should be set to 0xFF, but even that isn't enough.
And don't ignore the fact that people in general are fools.
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And they have condemned us all with that Autorun feature that has only caused headache for many of us.
They have also provided us with a scripting language that is prone to bugs and security holes, which caused the widespread Melissa virus.
Later we did see the SQL Slammer virus, which also used scripting technology.
And the SMB protocol that they have created may be useful for the purpose of sharing information between machines, but it's not designed to be safe in a way that allows it to be easily filtered in firewalls to select which services that may be passed through.
In Vista they provided us with the annoying UAC, which really wasn't that effective at all, and at the same time they also inserted features that silently replaced files that you did edit in a non-microsoft editor like Vim if that file happened to be located in certain places (try to configure Apache HTTPD under Vista Ultimate with Vim).
All in the name of making it simple for stupid users. It renders a certain validity of the statement "If you make something fool-proof only a fool will use it". And considering the general market coverage that Microsoft has today people in general are fools!
Add a wipe to the encryption and you may be safe.
The old problem with multiple wipes depended on the fact that there were rather large tolerances, but modern drives are very close to limits caused by physics, which means that it's a lot harder to extract wiped data.
If the data also was encrypted it will probably be impossible to re-create since there always is a level of loss even at recovery. For unencrypted data this may not be a big problem and it can be rectified by hand, but for encrypted data it will upset the whole packet that was encrypted.
But in a majority of cases a single wipe will be sufficient when the hardware is sold as surplus, since it's not easy to track and find out if a certain drive contains anything of interest.
Actually - the AD support in Samba is a bit of old news, since that has been promoted before.
But it's still good news, especially since lately the configuration of Microsoft's softwares and platforms has started to get incredibly complex and very hard to penetrate - as well as configure in a secure way.
As far as I know any AD solution involving Samba is using OpenLDAP as backend, but I may be wrong.
I am using OpenLDAP in a project and I can just say that it's quirky to say the least and isn't very verbal about configuration errors unless you fiddle with it.
It's also a bit quirky with symmetrical replication, but it's not impossible to make it work.
But on the positive side - it's fast and relatively reliable if you manage to configure it right. You just have to be very patient with it.
Just add thin copper mesh under the wallpapers next time you redo the wallpapers.
Disadvantage is that it may influence normal radio too.
Another way is to use 802.11a
Wasn't SOA declared dead already?
At least a few people have declared that it's dead, so we will have to wait for a new incarnation of SOA. What that will be called is a different question.
Compared to Western Digital Seagate is doing well. At least you don't have a rattling piece of junk within 12 months...
It's just software, and if a firmware upgrade helps that should be it.
And hard disks do fail now and then - the bath tub curve is infamous.
In a few years we may only see flash disks, but storage problems will remain. Those disks will also wear out over time, but at least they will be a lot more resilient to physical abuse.
Investment in this case is time, not money, but some of that time is paid by money so...
No need to distinguish between time and money.
Things like the theory of relativity is an algorithm that's very useful even today.
And a piece of software is an algorithm, so no big deal there.
You may have to rewrite it, but you don't have to re-research the basis for the algorithm.
Open Source is the ultimate in re-usable investments in the area of computer technology.
There are a lot of that kind of stuff floating around, but suddenly when Microsoft does it it makes into Slashdot.
I'm just waiting for that site to be a new spam target.
It's a question of "Not Invented Here", everyone wants their methods and system to be implemented, not someone elses.
If they need a bigger aircraft they should go to Antonov and ask them to make a new AN225 custom-built for the US president.
If that ain't big enough they have problems.
But maybe they want something faster instead? Supersonic?