Sure, what the hell. I always felt that having midget tranny anal fisting and nasty naked cilice-wrapped nuns were too hard to find. I'd love having that delivered right to me.
Careful what you ask for.
I wouldn't be so quick to be posting stuff like this these days. If you know what I mean.
I took the optical drive out of my MacBook Pro, stuffed a 1 terabyte HD in it and haven't looked back. The kit came with a cheapo USB optical box which I've used exactly once to load Disk Warrior.
Usually I just use another PC's optical drive and share it over the network. DVDs aren't dead yet but they're walking pretty darned slow these days.
Just last week we shipped some laptops from one work location to another, and had to go through the process of getting proper package labeling due to the lithium ion batteries being contained inside. After getting everything labeled per their regulations, FedEx rejected and returned the shipment because there were two parentheses missing in the shipping label text. We added the two parentheses and it shipped fine.
What's wrong with that? They're parentheses for God's sake! They're important.
As I've mentioned before - it can't (practically) be scaled up. Some points:
Israel is the size of New Jersey
It has exactly one major airport
The system requires significant, very personal, very invasive knowledge of passengers travel plans, personal history, bank history and baggage.
It's really an apples to mangoes comparison. Despite what DHS wants you to think, we're not in on an active wartime footing (in the US itself).
A couple of days in the Middle East will greatly expand your horizons. It's NOT Kansas.
You CANNOT use the 'Israeli method' in the US. It doesn't scale.
Israel is about the size of New Jersey. Israel has something on the order of 30 airports and only one major International airport. The US has - how many?
Israeli security scans passenger lists and pulls out very personal information to quiz you with. You're going where? With whom? How many Americans will think that that that is OK?
They will disassemble anything to bare metal if they feel the need. You want your iPhone to look like something out of iFixit? Again, this sort of thing would not be tolerated. The training required for this type of screening is orders of magnitude beyond that needed for a scanner monkey.
Your source is a blog of a blog of an un-named source that doesn't show anyone the putative memo. No pdf of the thing at all. For all we know, it's a bunch of electrons made up by somebody with an axe to grind.
A few seconds wandering around the Internet will yield hundreds if not thousands of similar posts about similar horrible things with about the same degree of provenance.
Tape the foil on tighter if you like, I'm going for the turkey.
That's because, if you try to read the TFA you don't get very far. Even with NoScript more or less completely unloaded, I can't get the links to work.
As far as I can tell, they "encrypt" data with a specific nuclease. If that's all they do, then following the sequence specific behaviors of the enzyme should allow you do 'decrypt' it which isn't terribly secure. But I really can't follow what they are actually doing, if anything.
Only if Microsoft doesn't fix it. Of course, somebody sharp could submit a patch... oh wait.
The traditional method of bypassing the UAC has been the average user mindlessly clicking "OK". Have you got a patch for that which does not involve firearms, poisons or BDSM stuff?
Best thing to do would be to ignore these speculation by the physicists. If they eventually come up with something that is accepted by large number of other physicists and come up with experiments or astronomical observations to back it up, that is when we laypeople should pay attention. Else we will be wasting our time following them barking up the wrong tree, er, spurious solutions.
So, this means we should quit reading Physorg.com and just watch 'Dancing with the Stars'?
The Israeli security system is a straw man - it doesn't scale and won't work in the US.
Israel is approximately the same size as New Jersey. It has something on the order of 30 airports, many of them military (YOU go land there if you like. It has essentially one major International airport - Ben Gurion between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Yes, the famed Israeli airport screeners do their job, but how many Americans would be happy to answer the questions I had to answer the three times I've been there?
"Where are you going? Who are you meeting? Why are you meeting them, why did your relatives move to El At last year? (they friggen knew that). You're a Ham radio operator, did you bring any radios? May I see your computer, please?
Not.Going.To.Happen.
And besides, if you think that American's are antsy about being patted down, how about having your 747 park out in the middle of the tarmac and being greeted by four APCs with recoilless rifles - two point AT the plane, two pointing AWAY from the plane. Uh huh, that will go over well.
Israel is so completely different from the US it's sometime surprising that they actually breath oxygen over there.
Lazarus Long: "Armed society is a polite society". While good idea in principle it is not very clear how that will scale to todays population densities. All armed societies known so far had population densities of several orders of magnitude less than today.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Really, the root cause of all this nonsense is resource limitations. We've munched ourselves out of our own home and garden and are busily nosing about in everyone else's backyard to see what we can appropriate.
Because of too many 'consumers' (parasites / voters / couch potatoes / meat popsicles).
When I see the phrase "The original real estate records HAVE NOT BEEN LOST," I interpret that to mean that they still have the deeds, surveys, sale contracts, liens, covenants and easements on file, on paper, in a cabinet.
Which is good. It just means they'll have about 30 years of data entry to do...
No, it means that the records haven't been LOST.
They've just been, er, 'misplaced'. Somebody put them in the round bins near their desk one day and they were taken away for storage. We'll find them soon. Not Lost, not at all.
Not necessarily. Ships have to follow rules and regulations of the countries they disembark at. The US EPA is starting to clamp down on such pollution, so I am not sure the breathless rant in TFA is really warranted.
One of my cats was actually born in a horse barn where he learned to be a proper cat. When he came to live with me he provided an endless supply of mice, squirrels, birds, and even rabbits.
And how's that working out for you? This is a feature, not a bug, I take it?
A hell of allot of good that do anyone. Its not like if the TSA sees anything remotely out of the ordinary with the scanner you are not going to then get the pat-down or some other intrusive search as a result.
Not to worry. It will be all right. These underwear are named after the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility. These are the good guys! They're US! And as an extra bonus, they light up at night.
To be fair, the engineers knew that the idiot PR flacks at NASA were trying to launch the Shuttle under conditions explicitly noted as being out of spec.
Said idiots forced the launch anyway. There are probably more conditions that disallow the Shuttle to launch than allow it - temperature is just one of many variables. That's why there is a countdown sequence. But you can't fault ATK / Thiokol for NASA's dramatic blunders. And yes, the did redesign the O-Rings (and pretty much everything else on the Shuttle over time). You'd be insane not to. The Challenger was 100% NASA's fault.
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Which is funny because if you look at the web stats of Slashdot, 90% of visitors are using Windows computers. LOL, bunch of poseur wannabes
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
Sure, what the hell. I always felt that having midget tranny anal fisting and nasty naked cilice-wrapped nuns were too hard to find. I'd love having that delivered right to me.
Careful what you ask for. I wouldn't be so quick to be posting stuff like this these days. If you know what I mean.
I took the optical drive out of my MacBook Pro, stuffed a 1 terabyte HD in it and haven't looked back. The kit came with a cheapo USB optical box which I've used exactly once to load Disk Warrior.
Usually I just use another PC's optical drive and share it over the network. DVDs aren't dead yet but they're walking pretty darned slow these days.
Cables are a bit annoying for something you're supposed to be holding in your arms and walking around with.
Why do you want to plug your kid into a cable? And just which type do you use?
Just last week we shipped some laptops from one work location to another, and had to go through the process of getting proper package labeling due to the lithium ion batteries being contained inside. After getting everything labeled per their regulations, FedEx rejected and returned the shipment because there were two parentheses missing in the shipping label text. We added the two parentheses and it shipped fine.
What's wrong with that? They're parentheses for God's sake! They're important.
Don't you know anything about programming?
Man are you naive. Boxes marked like that would be the very first to be 'lost'. It's like having a big sign that says "STEAL ME!".
As I've mentioned before - it can't (practically) be scaled up. Some points:
Israel is the size of New Jersey
It has exactly one major airport
The system requires significant, very personal, very invasive knowledge of passengers travel plans, personal history, bank history and baggage.
It's really an apples to mangoes comparison. Despite what DHS wants you to think, we're not in on an active wartime footing (in the US itself). A couple of days in the Middle East will greatly expand your horizons. It's NOT Kansas.
You CANNOT use the 'Israeli method' in the US. It doesn't scale.
Israel is about the size of New Jersey. Israel has something on the order of 30 airports and only one major International airport. The US has - how many?
Israeli security scans passenger lists and pulls out very personal information to quiz you with. You're going where? With whom? How many Americans will think that that that is OK?
They will disassemble anything to bare metal if they feel the need. You want your iPhone to look like something out of iFixit? Again, this sort of thing would not be tolerated. The training required for this type of screening is orders of magnitude beyond that needed for a scanner monkey.
It doesn't scale!
Like I said, I'm going for the turkey. If they're holding my family all I can say is that it sucks to be them....
Read this.
Opt-outers (presumably of any TSA procedure on any mode of transport) are tagged "domestic extremists" whose data will be referred to the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.
Your source is a blog of a blog of an un-named source that doesn't show anyone the putative memo. No pdf of the thing at all. For all we know, it's a bunch of electrons made up by somebody with an axe to grind.
A few seconds wandering around the Internet will yield hundreds if not thousands of similar posts about similar horrible things with about the same degree of provenance.
Tape the foil on tighter if you like, I'm going for the turkey.
That can be a hella expensive form of storage. Both maintenance and upgrade costs will just kill you.
That's because, if you try to read the TFA you don't get very far. Even with NoScript more or less completely unloaded, I can't get the links to work.
As far as I can tell, they "encrypt" data with a specific nuclease. If that's all they do, then following the sequence specific behaviors of the enzyme should allow you do 'decrypt' it which isn't terribly secure. But I really can't follow what they are actually doing, if anything.
Only if Microsoft doesn't fix it. Of course, somebody sharp could submit a patch ... oh wait.
The traditional method of bypassing the UAC has been the average user mindlessly clicking "OK". Have you got a patch for that which does not involve firearms, poisons or BDSM stuff?
Clap. Clap. Thanks for the exposition. (Now to reread it several times).
I'll have a think.
If you happen to have any extras, I'd appreciate sending one this way. All of this is making my head asplode.
Best thing to do would be to ignore these speculation by the physicists. If they eventually come up with something that is accepted by large number of other physicists and come up with experiments or astronomical observations to back it up, that is when we laypeople should pay attention. Else we will be wasting our time following them barking up the wrong tree, er, spurious solutions.
So, this means we should quit reading Physorg.com and just watch 'Dancing with the Stars'?
Oh, and
Burma Shave
Where did this article come from?
It's not vaguely tech related.
It's not 'on line'.
It doesn't run Linux, it doesn't even run Windows.
It has nothing to do with Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer or even Larry Ellison.
There is not a peep about SCO.
You can't hack it.
I can't even come up with any humorous take-offs of the topic save a couple of stale 'In Soviet Russia" references.
kdawson didn't do it.
It has nothing to do with Nomads, memory or size.
Maybe someone can find a spelling mistake or two.
The Israeli security system is a straw man - it doesn't scale and won't work in the US.
Israel is approximately the same size as New Jersey. It has something on the order of 30 airports, many of them military (YOU go land there if you like. It has essentially one major International airport - Ben Gurion between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Yes, the famed Israeli airport screeners do their job, but how many Americans would be happy to answer the questions I had to answer the three times I've been there?
"Where are you going? Who are you meeting? Why are you meeting them, why did your relatives move to El At last year? (they friggen knew that). You're a Ham radio operator, did you bring any radios? May I see your computer, please?
Not.Going.To.Happen.
And besides, if you think that American's are antsy about being patted down, how about having your 747 park out in the middle of the tarmac and being greeted by four APCs with recoilless rifles - two point AT the plane, two pointing AWAY from the plane. Uh huh, that will go over well.
Israel is so completely different from the US it's sometime surprising that they actually breath oxygen over there.
Lazarus Long: "Armed society is a polite society". While good idea in principle it is not very clear how that will scale to todays population densities. All armed societies known so far had population densities of several orders of magnitude less than today.
You say this like it's a bad thing. Really, the root cause of all this nonsense is resource limitations. We've munched ourselves out of our own home and garden and are busily nosing about in everyone else's backyard to see what we can appropriate.
Because of too many 'consumers' (parasites / voters / couch potatoes / meat popsicles).
Think about it for a bit....
When I see the phrase "The original real estate records HAVE NOT BEEN LOST," I interpret that to mean that they still have the deeds, surveys, sale contracts, liens, covenants and easements on file, on paper, in a cabinet.
Which is good. It just means they'll have about 30 years of data entry to do...
No, it means that the records haven't been LOST.
They've just been, er, 'misplaced'. Somebody put them in the round bins near their desk one day and they were taken away for storage. We'll find them soon. Not Lost, not at all.
Not necessarily. Ships have to follow rules and regulations of the countries they disembark at. The US EPA is starting to clamp down on such pollution, so I am not sure the breathless rant in TFA is really warranted.
One of my cats was actually born in a horse barn where he learned to be a proper cat. When he came to live with me he provided an endless supply of mice, squirrels, birds, and even rabbits.
And how's that working out for you? This is a feature, not a bug, I take it?
A hell of allot of good that do anyone. Its not like if the TSA sees anything remotely out of the ordinary with the scanner you are not going to then get the pat-down or some other intrusive search as a result.
Not to worry. It will be all right. These underwear are named after the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility. These are the good guys! They're US! And as an extra bonus, they light up at night.
To be fair, the engineers knew that the idiot PR flacks at NASA were trying to launch the Shuttle under conditions explicitly noted as being out of spec.
Said idiots forced the launch anyway. There are probably more conditions that disallow the Shuttle to launch than allow it - temperature is just one of many variables. That's why there is a countdown sequence. But you can't fault ATK / Thiokol for NASA's dramatic blunders. And yes, the did redesign the O-Rings (and pretty much everything else on the Shuttle over time). You'd be insane not to. The Challenger was 100% NASA's fault.