I asked another applicant a similar question: "Suppose you wanted to send me a file with very sensitive information, how would you encrypt it in such a way that I would decrypt it?" The person started off by asking me if it was an excel file, a PDF, etc.
What's wrong with asking that? Both Excel and Acrobat have built-in encryption capabilities. There's nothing ignorant about considering whether the built-in functionality is sufficient.
The security of an operating system should be judged by its default configuration, not by how insecure it is after you've installed a bunch of 3rd party apps. Even a security-oriented OS like OpenBSD can't prevent other people from doing insecure things to it.
Seriously though, you're making the wrong comparison. From descriptions I've read, the ISIS video contains quite a lengthy rant before the murder takes place. A more apropos question would be whether the Allies should have aired Hitler's speeches to the masses during the war.
I have similar feelings about the Olympics. It's fun to feel a part of something (national pride), but so much bribery and corruption goes in to choosing locations for the games, and so much effort and science goes in to cheating (with performance enhancing drugs), I find it hard to really get on board.
An electric motor could act as a generator on the way down, reclaiming enegry that was spent going up. Not with 100% efficiency, obviously, but the existing technique is not 100% efficient either.
I just can't picture needing anything beyond that.
While technically not an "antivirus" product in the conventional sense, Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit adds a significant layer of defense on top of Windows.
Microsoft removed the ability to "Insert from Scanner or Camera". For subsequent versions, the workaroundis to scan to an image file on your computer, and then insert the saved image into the document, rather than scanning directly into the document as before.
The removal of this menu item annoyed a lot of people, including myself.
Show me another spreadsheet program that's as good as Excel.
And I'm pretty happy with Exchange as my mail server. Using Outlook Anywhere, I don't have issues sending e-mail from Outlook if I travel outside of my ISP's network. Using Outlook Web Access, I can access e-mails, contacts, and calendars from nearly any device with a working web browser. And using Exchange ActiveSync, my e-mails, contacts, and calendars can keep in sync with iOS and Android phones. I never have to transfer contacts manually if I change to a different smartphone. I can even wipe my iPhone remotely if it gets lost. Setting up equivalent functionality with other software would involve a lot of work.
I've done signalling over A/C wiring with my own homemade devices, although not outside a single building. From my experience with home Ethernet-over-Power devices, it sometimes doesn't work where more than one electrical panel is traversed.
Nevertheless, there is an entire industry devoted to Broadband over powerline (BPL), and it reportedly works for smart meters.
Now kick that up to the electric company level, and give them a radio network that tells them which electric provider to get electricity from at what time to get the best (wholesale) price.
Why would the electric company need a radio network to communicate with household appliances? They already have a hardwired connection!
I'm not sure why all you systemd haters feel the need to say "If I wanted Windows, I'd run Windows".
Presumably because Windows takes a monolithic approach, and bundling more and more functionality into a single daemon seems to be taking that same direction.
Where I live, mornings used to be a cacophony of birdsong. After decades of "development", there's not much birdsong to be heard anymore aside from the occasional annoyance of a squawking crow.
How about the clickety-whir of a rotary dial telephone? I used to surprise people by being able to dial phone numbers using the hang-up button instead of the dial. If pressed rapidly enough, a series of 9 hang-up clicks had the same effect as dialling a "9", 8 clicks dialled an "8", and so on.
This trick continued to work long after tone dialling became the norm. For all I know it still works today; it's been a long time since I tried it.
The sound could not only be annoying; it could be damaging. The vibration of a flyback transformer can eventually loosen the solder joints that hold it down. I once repaired an old TV by simply reflowing those joints with a soldering iron.
I hadn't heard that Pythagorean example before. It really is surprising. Here's another math example that may surprise people:
Imagine that the Earth is a perfect sphere, and a rope is laid all the way around the Earth at the equator. The rope would be approximately 24,900 miles long. Now imagine that the rope is to be lifted exactly 1 foot off the ground all the way around. How much longer would the rope need to be?
I use an MP3 version of a 56k modem handshake as the ringtone on my phone. It's amusing the see the look on people's faces when the "fax" noise goes off.
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I asked another applicant a similar question: "Suppose you wanted to send me a file with very sensitive information, how would you encrypt it in such a way that I would decrypt it?" The person started off by asking me if it was an excel file, a PDF, etc.
What's wrong with asking that? Both Excel and Acrobat have built-in encryption capabilities. There's nothing ignorant about considering whether the built-in functionality is sufficient.
The security of an operating system should be judged by its default configuration, not by how insecure it is after you've installed a bunch of 3rd party apps. Even a security-oriented OS like OpenBSD can't prevent other people from doing insecure things to it.
You know, with only one additional keystroke you could have written the actual word instead of a dumb-looking of word.
Recursion is a loop.
Once again, Godwin's Law is proven.
Seriously though, you're making the wrong comparison. From descriptions I've read, the ISIS video contains quite a lengthy rant before the murder takes place. A more apropos question would be whether the Allies should have aired Hitler's speeches to the masses during the war.
Who are you Hugh Pickens?
And are you any relation to Slim?
I have similar feelings about the Olympics. It's fun to feel a part of something (national pride), but so much bribery and corruption goes in to choosing locations for the games, and so much effort and science goes in to cheating (with performance enhancing drugs), I find it hard to really get on board.
An electric motor could act as a generator on the way down, reclaiming enegry that was spent going up. Not with 100% efficiency, obviously, but the existing technique is not 100% efficient either.
I just can't picture needing anything beyond that.
While technically not an "antivirus" product in the conventional sense, Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit adds a significant layer of defense on top of Windows.
Name one function that was removed since 2003.
Microsoft removed the ability to "Insert from Scanner or Camera". For subsequent versions, the workaroundis to scan to an image file on your computer, and then insert the saved image into the document, rather than scanning directly into the document as before.
The removal of this menu item annoyed a lot of people, including myself.
Show me another spreadsheet program that's as good as Excel.
And I'm pretty happy with Exchange as my mail server. Using Outlook Anywhere, I don't have issues sending e-mail from Outlook if I travel outside of my ISP's network. Using Outlook Web Access, I can access e-mails, contacts, and calendars from nearly any device with a working web browser. And using Exchange ActiveSync, my e-mails, contacts, and calendars can keep in sync with iOS and Android phones. I never have to transfer contacts manually if I change to a different smartphone. I can even wipe my iPhone remotely if it gets lost. Setting up equivalent functionality with other software would involve a lot of work.
It's only a matter of time before some poor volunteer is asked to describe goatse.
I've done signalling over A/C wiring with my own homemade devices, although not outside a single building. From my experience with home Ethernet-over-Power devices, it sometimes doesn't work where more than one electrical panel is traversed.
Nevertheless, there is an entire industry devoted to Broadband over powerline (BPL), and it reportedly works for smart meters.
Now kick that up to the electric company level, and give them a radio network that tells them which electric provider to get electricity from at what time to get the best (wholesale) price.
Why would the electric company need a radio network to communicate with household appliances? They already have a hardwired connection!
I'm not sure why all you systemd haters feel the need to say "If I wanted Windows, I'd run Windows".
Presumably because Windows takes a monolithic approach, and bundling more and more functionality into a single daemon seems to be taking that same direction.
PfSense is a must if you are running ESXi topologies.
And why is that?
OpenBSD
Is there a way to mod an entire article as troll?
Have you looked at the stuff that Soekris makes?
Where I live, mornings used to be a cacophony of birdsong. After decades of "development", there's not much birdsong to be heard anymore aside from the occasional annoyance of a squawking crow.
How about the clickety-whir of a rotary dial telephone? I used to surprise people by being able to dial phone numbers using the hang-up button instead of the dial. If pressed rapidly enough, a series of 9 hang-up clicks had the same effect as dialling a "9", 8 clicks dialled an "8", and so on.
This trick continued to work long after tone dialling became the norm. For all I know it still works today; it's been a long time since I tried it.
The sound could not only be annoying; it could be damaging. The vibration of a flyback transformer can eventually loosen the solder joints that hold it down. I once repaired an old TV by simply reflowing those joints with a soldering iron.
I hadn't heard that Pythagorean example before. It really is surprising. Here's another math example that may surprise people:
Imagine that the Earth is a perfect sphere, and a rope is laid all the way around the Earth at the equator. The rope would be approximately 24,900 miles long. Now imagine that the rope is to be lifted exactly 1 foot off the ground all the way around. How much longer would the rope need to be?
Answer: A bit more than 6 feet. (2 to be exact).
I use an MP3 version of a 56k modem handshake as the ringtone on my phone. It's amusing the see the look on people's faces when the "fax" noise goes off.
Can somebody spell "somebody"?