I'm glad they haven't gotten to electronics kits yet...I'm sure they will eventually though. Those things are dangerous! God forbid people learn to build crystal radios to tune in the forbidden propaganda broadcasts. Knowledge is dangerous (...i'm only about 3/4s kidding, too)
I'm curious to see how they handle hidden volumes on encrypted disks. Sure you can give up the first key, but if you don't give up the second (or the x-th, how far can you nest these?) who's to know?
It sounds like the man has forgotten what a problem it used to be to install Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000...hunting for drivers, reconfiguring everything, trying to get your desktop out of 640x480x8....Windows XP has matured and hardware is well supported, but it's only been that way since 2002 or so. I'd say for hardware support Ubuntu is way ahead of where Win2k was in 2000 or 2001.
In my personal experience, government IT projects (especially social welfare systems) tend to have a higher problem rate than commercial projects due to conflicting political goals, pork-barrel spending, and faulty oversight. *shrug*
I posted, then actually RTFA....Page three lists some findings from an audit of the program - password problems, no individual logon IDs, a few other issues. This is what I do for a living, and it's been my experience (especially with government IT programs) that if you find problems such as these with logical access, it's likely there will be more general control problems such as developers with access to production environments, active IDs of terminated or transferred employees, and so on. The financial fraud element is probably not as much a concern with the FBI but there are other risks.
If it makes Slashdot more like digg, then bad idea. It's a train wreck of sex and conspiracy theories over there. Well...on second thought maybe we can make it half like digg.
Ahhh...the Drafthouse has it right. I work three blocks away from the original one. It's great. And when I say great, I mean it's fun to go! thats how it should be.
It just makes it easier for me not to go to theaters - I mean, think about it. What do you gain by going to a theater? A big, big screen and instant gratification of seeing the movie the instant it's released. That's it. The surround sound, comfy chair, and junk food you can get anywhere. Is it really worth the trouble? I don't think so. I am patient. Even with my beat-up 36" Toshiba CRT and having to wait a bit to Netflix the movie, it's still worth it to me to not have to deal with the ads, previews, searches, mess, prices, and hordes of near-animals that have turned theaters into very unpleasant experiences. I used to enjoy a reasonably-priced movie and even paid a bit more for drinks - not any more.
You know, what I really want is art and poetry; I want to be moved, like what I'm listening to *means something*. I want an emotional response, and if not that, then at bare minimum I want clever and quirky or even funny, but what's out there now doesn't even deliver *that*. Funny, I was just screaming the same thing off the balcony at work this morning.
You're correct -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith
Silk as an ancestor of modern data storage techniques.
I wrote a paper on this in school years ago - the chain of events leading from little child labourers making mistakes while weaving brocaded silk to IBM is quite interesting.
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I'm glad they haven't gotten to electronics kits yet...I'm sure they will eventually though. Those things are dangerous! God forbid people learn to build crystal radios to tune in the forbidden propaganda broadcasts. Knowledge is dangerous (...i'm only about 3/4s kidding, too)
Come on baby....aw hell.
I'm curious to see how they handle hidden volumes on encrypted disks. Sure you can give up the first key, but if you don't give up the second (or the x-th, how far can you nest these?) who's to know?
Didn't Frank Herbert describe something just like this in Dune? Pain through nerve induction?
It sounds like the man has forgotten what a problem it used to be to install Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000...hunting for drivers, reconfiguring everything, trying to get your desktop out of 640x480x8....Windows XP has matured and hardware is well supported, but it's only been that way since 2002 or so. I'd say for hardware support Ubuntu is way ahead of where Win2k was in 2000 or 2001.
In my personal experience, government IT projects (especially social welfare systems) tend to have a higher problem rate than commercial projects due to conflicting political goals, pork-barrel spending, and faulty oversight. *shrug*
I posted, then actually RTFA....Page three lists some findings from an audit of the program - password problems, no individual logon IDs, a few other issues. This is what I do for a living, and it's been my experience (especially with government IT programs) that if you find problems such as these with logical access, it's likely there will be more general control problems such as developers with access to production environments, active IDs of terminated or transferred employees, and so on. The financial fraud element is probably not as much a concern with the FBI but there are other risks.
This is the government - and the FBI. Somehow I can't believe it actually works as smoothly as that.
Can't beat that for practical life experience.
If it makes Slashdot more like digg, then bad idea. It's a train wreck of sex and conspiracy theories over there. Well...on second thought maybe we can make it half like digg.
Ahhh...the Drafthouse has it right. I work three blocks away from the original one. It's great. And when I say great, I mean it's fun to go! thats how it should be.
It just makes it easier for me not to go to theaters - I mean, think about it. What do you gain by going to a theater? A big, big screen and instant gratification of seeing the movie the instant it's released. That's it. The surround sound, comfy chair, and junk food you can get anywhere. Is it really worth the trouble? I don't think so. I am patient. Even with my beat-up 36" Toshiba CRT and having to wait a bit to Netflix the movie, it's still worth it to me to not have to deal with the ads, previews, searches, mess, prices, and hordes of near-animals that have turned theaters into very unpleasant experiences. I used to enjoy a reasonably-priced movie and even paid a bit more for drinks - not any more.
was listening to SomaFM via Treo, got a call, and when I came back, no music :(
This was an invaluable service - makes me wonder who's putting the pressure on them :(
guess i was wrong, learn something new every day!
God forbid they should be terminatated.
Oh yeah...I'm coming for all your asses.
It's the same feeling I have scribbling notes in a meeting with a pencil rather than using my laptop.
Already done with URL blacklists for links in the email, and RBL lists for SMPT connections.
You're correct - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith Silk as an ancestor of modern data storage techniques. I wrote a paper on this in school years ago - the chain of events leading from little child labourers making mistakes while weaving brocaded silk to IBM is quite interesting.
The Jacquard Loom users were sharing torrents of punch card patterns.
"Steve, send the phone spiders."