The Internet was started as, and always has been, a "best effort" network. If a packet gets through, great. If not, well, it's not the end of the world. People have tried to code more and more resilient protocols on top to be as robust as possible, but in the end it's a very fragile system that can go down quite easily.
Anything sufficiently "high stakes" shouldn't rely on an unreliable medium.
No, not really. There are only a handful of games there, and it's amazingly challenging to figure out which of the non-descriptive menu items actually gets you to that small list. HappyPenguin still seems to be the resource of choice for finding new Linux games.
He didn't say, all people who run windows can't manage their pc and should be put out to pasture.
No but he did mention only using 1 partiton. Why the hell would that matter how many partitions you have if you only have 1 hard disk using NTFS?
Agreed. Multiple partitions on a single physical disk are handy for Windows when you're reasonably sure to run out of space sometime. I haven't had an issue like that in years, though. Why complicate things?
So... their entire skill set can be replaced by a sufficiently large vending machine and a GPS?
Re:What's the Difference Between a Computer Salesm
on
Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Completely agreed. The staff at Best Buy or whatever other brick and mortar store carries computers is so completely clueless that it's comical. Why should online vendors be much different?
The best part for me was seeing that they outsource their sales staff, too. Shouldn't they just be moving their headquarters to India by now? So much for the "American" company started out of the guy next door's garage.
Of course it can! It could, for example, immediately upon launch, enroll you in a roster of botnets, search your drive for 9- and 16- digit numbers to send to an email address in the Czech Republic, and post all pictures it finds on all connected drives to Flickr.
Every IE installation I've seen already does that.
Making IE less secure is like making water more wet.
Certain water can be made more wet, technically.
One definition: wet (adj.) - Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents.
So if, for example, you were to desalinate sea water, you would be making it more wet, in terms of density, because less non-liquid reagents would be present. IE, on the other hand, cannot be less secure.
Not when thousands of people who would have been responsible for implementing your products would rather quit than support your company in any way, shape, or form.
Which still defeats any amount of credibility they may have hoped to maintain. Malice and stupidity are fairly interchangeable, especially when the end result is a vendor spewing a shit shower.
The first two links you provided only account for 4th and 8th grade test scores. While it's nice that they're tested, the level of math and science that 4th and 8th graders are subjected to are relatively basic. The 3rd link you posted references a non-comparable score based upon the addition of individual countries' teams' scores.
It's much more accurate to gauge high schoolers' educational performance when judging overall aptitude.
The PISA tests are pay-to-read, but are reported on by many media sources. The executive summary is available from here, and it places the U.S in a 4-way tie for 32nd, or "significantly below the OECD average" for mathematics (page 53). We are also below average in science. tied for 24th (page 22).
Obviously the circumstantial evidence I was speaking of was along the lines of "happened to live within a mile of the crime scene" stuff. From a legal perspective, yes, there is no "circumstantial" qualifier for evidence. From a logical perspective, the level of certainty for evidence, as you put it, has to be carefully judged. I'm fairly certain that the accuracy of which a juror would judge said evidence would be affected, significantly, by education level and general intelligence.
Many external hard drives' actual drive is screwed into a plastic runner with no ground. I believe I've seen quite a few arrays that use hot-swap mounts with no obvious conductive grounding connection.
Static discharge is something completely different. Static can build up to thousands of volts, which arcs between the low-voltage circuitry and damages components.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just not sure that the ground leakage in a 5v or 12v case are significant enough to warrant much worry. It may be low enough to be considered non-real for all consumer-level intents and purposes.
Is environmental grounding required? I thought that most components made use of the power supply's ground wire directly. Otherwise, it's pretty pointless to have a case that doesn't have a direct conductive circuit to the power supply, which many don't.
What about evidence that is not admissible because the illegality of the acquisition contributed to a distinct possibility of tampering? Not all excluded evidence is good evidence.
Bullshit. American are not stupid. No more then any other country.
Considering the average American's lack of basic understanding of science and mathematics compared to nearly every other developed country, I do not believe that your statement is accurate. Your statement is especially inaccurate in this context, where critical evaluation of scientific data is important to nearly every case involving forensic evidence.
Slashdot Mirror
The Internet was started as, and always has been, a "best effort" network. If a packet gets through, great. If not, well, it's not the end of the world. People have tried to code more and more resilient protocols on top to be as robust as possible, but in the end it's a very fragile system that can go down quite easily.
Anything sufficiently "high stakes" shouldn't rely on an unreliable medium.
No, not really. There are only a handful of games there, and it's amazingly challenging to figure out which of the non-descriptive menu items actually gets you to that small list. HappyPenguin still seems to be the resource of choice for finding new Linux games.
MITM attacks are relatively hard to exploit. You're essentially limited to wireless networks, or hostile LANs..
Just one compromised workstation in a LAN makes it hostile.
What makes you think your own code is any better?
His own code can be easily updated when it needs to be. Microsoft's... heh heh.
I know what a Marlinspike is, but wft is a Moxie?
I don't know, but Knob Goblins fear it.
Wired ethernet has its own security problems btw.
Oh pray tell
my girlfriend is thinking about buying a car, and I MUST STOP HER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
Not a bad plan of action, there.
He didn't say, all people who run windows can't manage their pc and should be put out to pasture.
No but he did mention only using 1 partiton. Why the hell would that matter how many partitions you have if you only have 1 hard disk using NTFS?
Agreed. Multiple partitions on a single physical disk are handy for Windows when you're reasonably sure to run out of space sometime. I haven't had an issue like that in years, though. Why complicate things?
So... their entire skill set can be replaced by a sufficiently large vending machine and a GPS?
Completely agreed. The staff at Best Buy or whatever other brick and mortar store carries computers is so completely clueless that it's comical. Why should online vendors be much different?
The best part for me was seeing that they outsource their sales staff, too. Shouldn't they just be moving their headquarters to India by now? So much for the "American" company started out of the guy next door's garage.
Of course it can! It could, for example, immediately upon launch, enroll you in a roster of botnets, search your drive for 9- and 16- digit numbers to send to an email address in the Czech Republic, and post all pictures it finds on all connected drives to Flickr.
Every IE installation I've seen already does that.
Making IE less secure is like making water more wet.
Certain water can be made more wet, technically.
One definition: wet (adj.) - Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents.
So if, for example, you were to desalinate sea water, you would be making it more wet, in terms of density, because less non-liquid reagents would be present. IE, on the other hand, cannot be less secure.
Robin Hood is fictional.
Not when thousands of people who would have been responsible for implementing your products would rather quit than support your company in any way, shape, or form.
Which still defeats any amount of credibility they may have hoped to maintain. Malice and stupidity are fairly interchangeable, especially when the end result is a vendor spewing a shit shower.
Anonymous cowards don't deserve citations. Go back to Digg, asshole.
Not all lawyers are bad.
That was informative. Thank you!
Perhaps you should read the reply to the other poster, then? I'm not sure what is "false" about it.
The first two links you provided only account for 4th and 8th grade test scores. While it's nice that they're tested, the level of math and science that 4th and 8th graders are subjected to are relatively basic. The 3rd link you posted references a non-comparable score based upon the addition of individual countries' teams' scores.
It's much more accurate to gauge high schoolers' educational performance when judging overall aptitude.
The PISA tests are pay-to-read, but are reported on by many media sources. The executive summary is available from here, and it places the U.S in a 4-way tie for 32nd, or "significantly below the OECD average" for mathematics (page 53). We are also below average in science. tied for 24th (page 22).
Obviously the circumstantial evidence I was speaking of was along the lines of "happened to live within a mile of the crime scene" stuff. From a legal perspective, yes, there is no "circumstantial" qualifier for evidence. From a logical perspective, the level of certainty for evidence, as you put it, has to be carefully judged. I'm fairly certain that the accuracy of which a juror would judge said evidence would be affected, significantly, by education level and general intelligence.
Many external hard drives' actual drive is screwed into a plastic runner with no ground. I believe I've seen quite a few arrays that use hot-swap mounts with no obvious conductive grounding connection.
Static discharge is something completely different. Static can build up to thousands of volts, which arcs between the low-voltage circuitry and damages components.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just not sure that the ground leakage in a 5v or 12v case are significant enough to warrant much worry. It may be low enough to be considered non-real for all consumer-level intents and purposes.
Is environmental grounding required? I thought that most components made use of the power supply's ground wire directly. Otherwise, it's pretty pointless to have a case that doesn't have a direct conductive circuit to the power supply, which many don't.
What about evidence that is not admissible because the illegality of the acquisition contributed to a distinct possibility of tampering? Not all excluded evidence is good evidence.
Bullshit. American are not stupid. No more then any other country.
Considering the average American's lack of basic understanding of science and mathematics compared to nearly every other developed country, I do not believe that your statement is accurate. Your statement is especially inaccurate in this context, where critical evaluation of scientific data is important to nearly every case involving forensic evidence.