Yes, but you should be required to waste electricity to install an upgrade. The point is that the "repair" is harder today than it was 30 years ago. That's the trend. Especially when manufacturers will deliberately make things hard to repair.
Actually, it is. The distribution of first time offenders is almost perfectly evenly distributed. It's just that a Black person who offends is treated so much more harshly than a White doing the same thing, that recidivism is almost guaranteed. It's a "tough on crime" conspiracy by the Conservatives to strip the vote from all the Blacks.
So you are saying that my grandparents are better at fixing a 404 error than I am? My mother can't work her cell phone (eventually ported her number back to a land line). And had so much trouble with her laptop she eventually gave it up for an iPad. But the next generation can use them so much better, "fixing" problems with them that are less physical, and more user/programming based.
The parents value things differently, and that accounts for the vast majority of the difference. The kids these days can "fix" a locking up computer better than their parents.
we over 50 were taught to fix shit,
There was no qualification that it was only things they owned. Your new statement is a goalpost change from your previous assertion. It may be what you meant initially, but wasn't what you said.
Kids these days "fix shit", you just don't value the fixing they do. There's a difference. A Competent Man is a fictional creation the old people believe in. It's not as simple as when you were born.
If they are charging illegally high rates that violate your state's penal codes, then file a complaint against them. If not, then they are 100% legal criminals, which is a definition I don't believe in.
Make sure you have incremental backup and not just a full backup/synchronization though, otherwise you'll just overwrite the good versions with encrypted bad versions, you need to be able to go back in history and get a good version from before you were infected.
Incremental is the worst system for restoring. Needing the last full and *all* backups since the last full. Differential is better in that you need the last full and *one* differential. What I think you really mean is versioned backups (not over-written). You can restore from Tuesday's backup (whether full, differential, or incremental is irrelevant), and Tuesday's won't be wiped when Wednesday's is written. Incremental is a way of doing that with limited space, but not always the ideal, and doesn't require good versioning, as in companies, the full is usually weekly (over the weekend, when backup time is irrelevant, so long as it completes in 62 or so hours, as opposed to nightly which are differential/incremental to complete in 8 hours on a smaller media set. But backing up 10MB of user data on a 10GB cloud drive, you can do a full backup daily and still keep 1000 versions. It's the versions that matter, not the backup type.
So you are asserting that the Teabaggers don't want an efficient government? That's consistent with their actions, but I don't think that's consistent with their statements.
Nah, I threw out her PC and gave her an iPod. It does email and Skype. With solitaire and light web browsing, that's 99% of what she does, and much less vulnerable to such things. That, and effectively being without local storage, there's nothing to lose.
They are capitalist in that they generated a demand and met it with supply. Whether through "marketing" or "crime" doesn't matter to the definition of "capitalism" does it?
In the purely academic sense, since you recommended a course in economics, "capitalist" vs "socialist" comes down to who controls the means of production. Do the robbers own their own guns? Then it's capitalistic. Do the robbers use government guns? Then it's socialistic. In the case here, the robbers own the hacks used, so it's capitalistic. Perhaps you are the one in need of a college course.
Yes, you did. You indicated that we don't know how to fix things our parents think we should fix. My father's parents were born before IC engines. So people like them would be more likely to know a steam engine than gas or diesel engines. Since this was about "grandparents", I can use them as an example, right? Even though they died in the '40s. They are still my grandparents. My father was all about IC engines, since he grew up in the '40s, where road racing and cruising got it's start. So every few generations, the desired skills are changed, and the old people complain. This is just another complaint by old people about young people not having the same interests.
I've seen a BMW "fail" because of a taillight bulb swap, where the LED replacement was a 100% replacement for the original and met all the requirements (other than not drawing enough power). While an illegally bright reverse light was perfectly fine, as far as the car's monitoring system was concerned.
More likely, Sky will buy the rights, then not show it. They buy rights for things they aren't intending to show in order to lock others out, and drive subscriptions. You can't pay $10 a month to stream stuff. You have to pay a full Sky subscription (we'll call it $100) to get access to their streaming service, and it's not even a very good one.
So the American license is the global license. But they don't give global licenses, because they can extract money selling the exact same thing 200 times to 200 different people. But reality wins. If you don't allow global access under the more expensive US license, then you'll have pirates, as the streaming options in most other places are inferior.
I didn't think that Netflix was required by contract to go to extraordinary measures to block un-blocking. 100% security is impossible. Maybe some content owners started complaining to Netflix and threatening to pull content.
This is a case of the content owners punishing paying users. The un-blockers are all paying users. The pirates aren't. The content owners are making more pirates, and refusing the money of paying customers. And wondering why their business model isn't working.
Drop in an LED for a replacement, and the car could register it as a fault, because it's not draining the right amount of power. We are so smart we are dumb.
Nope. I don't know anyone over 50 who knows how to build or repair a steam engine. The shit to fix changes, but "fix shit" still exists. When I was 5-50, my parents were continually asking for help setting their clocks. It wasn't until 70+ when they got devices that were smart where they could finally "fix" the clock. The cable box sets clock from the network. But my father (probable 30 years older than you) never learned how to set time on a clock. Yes, he'd "return" it to the dealer and ask them to do it.
That you see no value in what kids can fix doesn't mean that it's worthless. I'd guess that when my father was a teen and continually "fixing" his car, his parents complained that he didn't know how to "fix" the horse. As he was raised on a farm to parents born before farm machinery was common (as in I doubt there was much machinery in farming in IN in the 1880s, but haven't researched it), so fixing farm equipment is a lower priority than maintaining the animals which powered the farm implements.
Same complaint, new generation.
Plus, my observation is that when it costs $100 to fix an item, but $90 to buy the same thing new, why would you fix it? Yes, that bites you when it costs $90 to fix it and $100 to buy it and you can't fix it, but that's rare. Things are disposable because the grandparents running the corporations that make the shit design it to be unfixable. Then complain when their grandchildren can't fix it.
USB keys don't contain drivers. The attack is that when you aren't looking your thumb drive presents itself as a Logitech USB keyboard and then proceeds to type in a rootkit or whatever.
To be an HID, it must announce itself as one (called "driver" even when it just announces itself and requests the default OS driver). To do so, it must authenticate with the host OS. If not, the HID functionality will be disabled.
Sure, the drive can only do things that you could do with a keyboard, but you'd be amazed just what you can do with only a keyboard.
I've been told the problem is when the USB drive is actually a storage device, but leaches power (but no connectivity to the host computer) to broadcast the contents of the device on WiFi to a listening attack machine outside (but in WiFi range). That would be theoretically undetectable, unless you have scanners and Faraday cages up all over the place. And my thought for signing is to sign per device, not that one keyboard would allow anything that announces itself as that keyboard (but without authentication) would get "root" access.
Bush didn't tank a baseball team. He made millions off it. He bought in, used his "influence" (asking daddy for favors) to get the old stadium re-built at taxpayer expense, and sold off, for a massive profit. He didn't have any real duties, despite an inflated title, and was just there to grease political wheels for a new stadium.
Traditional Republican style, welfare for the rich. A millionaire made milions more off the taxpayers because he got a "free house" but God forbid we let a poor person stay in a state home for a while to get back on their feet after personal problems.
I have a 10 year old laptop that would still be in use (as a kid's play machine) if the hinge didn't break. It looks like any other laptop. Aside from the beige/brown color, a Toshiba from the '90s looks like a modern laptop, even if thick. Not like the Compaq "portables" I had back in school. They really are a WTF compared to today's laptops.
And is fixed by the government and any enterprise that runs their own servers. Funny how blackberry is the only company that sells government-proof phones, and is the only one being kept alive by government contracts.
Quite pricy but nuless you slid your finger across the surface (later slid the cover open and did the same), or hacked it apart with scissors, they basically worked and retained data very reliably.
The disk drives for a C64 would wipe floppies. Take a disk out, put it on top of the drive. Put #2 in, #1 is now unusable. It wasn't every drive, but it was a common problem at the time. I had a friend with one. Also, I've seen a USB left in a pocket survive a wash cycle. It wasn't water or weatherproof. I've never seen a floppy work after being dunked in water, though I hadn't tried that much. Floppies are more fragile than USB drives. At least from my experience.
They are expensive for what they do. An Android fork that used government servers, rather than Google, for everything would be similar in functionality and security, with no licensing cost, and run on much more hardware.
That's why they need brilliant people in the government.
I can see how govt would hate using thumb drives (a rogue thumb drive could mimic any USB device),
The government is large. A demand that any driver be signed by the maker (with the proper key loaded into the government PKI) would eliminate 99% of such attacks. All USB storage must have a key.txt in the root with a valid key.
Problems getting manufacturers going along with it? You are the US government. "Do what I ask, or we'll eliminate your stuff from procurement for someone that does. And if you complain publicly, we'll refuse to buy from anyone who uses your stuff."
Security doesn't happen until someone demands it (and pays for it). The government should be leading the charge, not NSA-style trying to hold everyone back. Double DES is good enough for anyone.
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Yes, but you should be required to waste electricity to install an upgrade. The point is that the "repair" is harder today than it was 30 years ago. That's the trend. Especially when manufacturers will deliberately make things hard to repair.
Actually, it is. The distribution of first time offenders is almost perfectly evenly distributed. It's just that a Black person who offends is treated so much more harshly than a White doing the same thing, that recidivism is almost guaranteed. It's a "tough on crime" conspiracy by the Conservatives to strip the vote from all the Blacks.
The parents value things differently, and that accounts for the vast majority of the difference. The kids these days can "fix" a locking up computer better than their parents.
we over 50 were taught to fix shit,
There was no qualification that it was only things they owned. Your new statement is a goalpost change from your previous assertion. It may be what you meant initially, but wasn't what you said.
Kids these days "fix shit", you just don't value the fixing they do. There's a difference. A Competent Man is a fictional creation the old people believe in. It's not as simple as when you were born.
If they are charging illegally high rates that violate your state's penal codes, then file a complaint against them. If not, then they are 100% legal criminals, which is a definition I don't believe in.
His user doesn't have permissions to his user files.
Make sure you have incremental backup and not just a full backup/synchronization though, otherwise you'll just overwrite the good versions with encrypted bad versions, you need to be able to go back in history and get a good version from before you were infected.
Incremental is the worst system for restoring. Needing the last full and *all* backups since the last full. Differential is better in that you need the last full and *one* differential. What I think you really mean is versioned backups (not over-written). You can restore from Tuesday's backup (whether full, differential, or incremental is irrelevant), and Tuesday's won't be wiped when Wednesday's is written. Incremental is a way of doing that with limited space, but not always the ideal, and doesn't require good versioning, as in companies, the full is usually weekly (over the weekend, when backup time is irrelevant, so long as it completes in 62 or so hours, as opposed to nightly which are differential/incremental to complete in 8 hours on a smaller media set. But backing up 10MB of user data on a 10GB cloud drive, you can do a full backup daily and still keep 1000 versions. It's the versions that matter, not the backup type.
So you are asserting that the Teabaggers don't want an efficient government? That's consistent with their actions, but I don't think that's consistent with their statements.
Nah, I threw out her PC and gave her an iPod. It does email and Skype. With solitaire and light web browsing, that's 99% of what she does, and much less vulnerable to such things. That, and effectively being without local storage, there's nothing to lose.
They are capitalist in that they generated a demand and met it with supply. Whether through "marketing" or "crime" doesn't matter to the definition of "capitalism" does it?
In the purely academic sense, since you recommended a course in economics, "capitalist" vs "socialist" comes down to who controls the means of production. Do the robbers own their own guns? Then it's capitalistic. Do the robbers use government guns? Then it's socialistic. In the case here, the robbers own the hacks used, so it's capitalistic. Perhaps you are the one in need of a college course.
I did not say we were taught useless skills.
Yes, you did. You indicated that we don't know how to fix things our parents think we should fix. My father's parents were born before IC engines. So people like them would be more likely to know a steam engine than gas or diesel engines. Since this was about "grandparents", I can use them as an example, right? Even though they died in the '40s. They are still my grandparents. My father was all about IC engines, since he grew up in the '40s, where road racing and cruising got it's start. So every few generations, the desired skills are changed, and the old people complain. This is just another complaint by old people about young people not having the same interests.
I've seen a BMW "fail" because of a taillight bulb swap, where the LED replacement was a 100% replacement for the original and met all the requirements (other than not drawing enough power). While an illegally bright reverse light was perfectly fine, as far as the car's monitoring system was concerned.
More likely, Sky will buy the rights, then not show it. They buy rights for things they aren't intending to show in order to lock others out, and drive subscriptions. You can't pay $10 a month to stream stuff. You have to pay a full Sky subscription (we'll call it $100) to get access to their streaming service, and it's not even a very good one.
Shit like that is why everyone runs to VPNs.
So the American license is the global license. But they don't give global licenses, because they can extract money selling the exact same thing 200 times to 200 different people. But reality wins. If you don't allow global access under the more expensive US license, then you'll have pirates, as the streaming options in most other places are inferior.
I didn't think that Netflix was required by contract to go to extraordinary measures to block un-blocking. 100% security is impossible. Maybe some content owners started complaining to Netflix and threatening to pull content.
This is a case of the content owners punishing paying users. The un-blockers are all paying users. The pirates aren't. The content owners are making more pirates, and refusing the money of paying customers. And wondering why their business model isn't working.
Drop in an LED for a replacement, and the car could register it as a fault, because it's not draining the right amount of power. We are so smart we are dumb.
Nope. I don't know anyone over 50 who knows how to build or repair a steam engine. The shit to fix changes, but "fix shit" still exists. When I was 5-50, my parents were continually asking for help setting their clocks. It wasn't until 70+ when they got devices that were smart where they could finally "fix" the clock. The cable box sets clock from the network. But my father (probable 30 years older than you) never learned how to set time on a clock. Yes, he'd "return" it to the dealer and ask them to do it.
That you see no value in what kids can fix doesn't mean that it's worthless. I'd guess that when my father was a teen and continually "fixing" his car, his parents complained that he didn't know how to "fix" the horse. As he was raised on a farm to parents born before farm machinery was common (as in I doubt there was much machinery in farming in IN in the 1880s, but haven't researched it), so fixing farm equipment is a lower priority than maintaining the animals which powered the farm implements.
Same complaint, new generation.
Plus, my observation is that when it costs $100 to fix an item, but $90 to buy the same thing new, why would you fix it? Yes, that bites you when it costs $90 to fix it and $100 to buy it and you can't fix it, but that's rare. Things are disposable because the grandparents running the corporations that make the shit design it to be unfixable. Then complain when their grandchildren can't fix it.
USB keys don't contain drivers. The attack is that when you aren't looking your thumb drive presents itself as a Logitech USB keyboard and then proceeds to type in a rootkit or whatever.
To be an HID, it must announce itself as one (called "driver" even when it just announces itself and requests the default OS driver). To do so, it must authenticate with the host OS. If not, the HID functionality will be disabled.
Sure, the drive can only do things that you could do with a keyboard, but you'd be amazed just what you can do with only a keyboard.
I've been told the problem is when the USB drive is actually a storage device, but leaches power (but no connectivity to the host computer) to broadcast the contents of the device on WiFi to a listening attack machine outside (but in WiFi range). That would be theoretically undetectable, unless you have scanners and Faraday cages up all over the place. And my thought for signing is to sign per device, not that one keyboard would allow anything that announces itself as that keyboard (but without authentication) would get "root" access.
While I agree with the sentiment, the Tea Party will whine and complain it is government pushing around the private sector,
Why is it that those who claim they want the most efficient government do all they can to make the government as inefficient as possible?
Are you asserting there exists no Android phone with less Chinese content than any Blackberry?
Bush didn't tank a baseball team. He made millions off it. He bought in, used his "influence" (asking daddy for favors) to get the old stadium re-built at taxpayer expense, and sold off, for a massive profit. He didn't have any real duties, despite an inflated title, and was just there to grease political wheels for a new stadium.
Traditional Republican style, welfare for the rich. A millionaire made milions more off the taxpayers because he got a "free house" but God forbid we let a poor person stay in a state home for a while to get back on their feet after personal problems.
I have a 10 year old laptop that would still be in use (as a kid's play machine) if the hinge didn't break. It looks like any other laptop. Aside from the beige/brown color, a Toshiba from the '90s looks like a modern laptop, even if thick. Not like the Compaq "portables" I had back in school. They really are a WTF compared to today's laptops.
And is fixed by the government and any enterprise that runs their own servers. Funny how blackberry is the only company that sells government-proof phones, and is the only one being kept alive by government contracts.
Quite pricy but nuless you slid your finger across the surface (later slid the cover open and did the same), or hacked it apart with scissors, they basically worked and retained data very reliably.
The disk drives for a C64 would wipe floppies. Take a disk out, put it on top of the drive. Put #2 in, #1 is now unusable. It wasn't every drive, but it was a common problem at the time. I had a friend with one. Also, I've seen a USB left in a pocket survive a wash cycle. It wasn't water or weatherproof. I've never seen a floppy work after being dunked in water, though I hadn't tried that much. Floppies are more fragile than USB drives. At least from my experience.
They are expensive for what they do. An Android fork that used government servers, rather than Google, for everything would be similar in functionality and security, with no licensing cost, and run on much more hardware.
I can see how govt would hate using thumb drives (a rogue thumb drive could mimic any USB device),
The government is large. A demand that any driver be signed by the maker (with the proper key loaded into the government PKI) would eliminate 99% of such attacks. All USB storage must have a key.txt in the root with a valid key.
Problems getting manufacturers going along with it? You are the US government. "Do what I ask, or we'll eliminate your stuff from procurement for someone that does. And if you complain publicly, we'll refuse to buy from anyone who uses your stuff."
Security doesn't happen until someone demands it (and pays for it). The government should be leading the charge, not NSA-style trying to hold everyone back. Double DES is good enough for anyone.