Evidently you have not read the KB article and the problem that users (and I) have had.
From the KB:
"To resolve the Automatic Updates problem (and to protect your computer against vulnerabilities) go to either the Windows Update or Microsoft Update web sites and install any needed Windows Service Packs or updates. Once you have downloaded and installed at least one critical update from the Windows Update or Microsoft Update web site, Automatic Updates will once again correctly detect, download or install Windows Service Packs or security updates depending on what settings you have selected for Automatic Updates on your computer."
The problem is this does not occur. I've seen issues where windows update will not load, either a blank page after some time or the little bar scrolls forever. Without deleting certain system directories and re-registering system files will will not be able to receive automatic updates again.
Linux is far easier to repair if broken. It isn't actively thinking your hacking/copying/pirating it and trying to lock your ass out. I can always boot off a live CD and relocate the glibc/kernel rpms if I jack the system libraries. Most times you'll never need to go that far.
On the other notes, open source good, proprietary bad. Yes, I know it's not that simple in practice.
Leased line networks are a security through obscurity measure that can contribute to poor security policies if used alone. Yes, they do reduce your exposure that the public internet gives, but are not a end all solution.
A.) Is the telephone company really providing a hardware dedicated path with your leased line, or is it being muxed over other hardware where it is vulnerable to interception.
B.) Is your leased line secure from someone digging up your line and intercepting your signal. At T1 can be pretty easy to find in a large bundle if it's the only high voltage pair.
C.) Is your network secure from some jackass plugging in a wireless device to an ethernet jack.
D.) It doesn't matter if the power generation station is secure if the control monitoring stations are not.
As I've stated in a previous post, the power grid is very complex. A generator cannot respond instantly to changes in the grid, it is controlled by a mechanical process on one end. Fire, steam, water pressure cannot change instantly to the demands of a grid. If the generator can foresee a change occur it can spin up/down before it needs to. For example if a large generator is going to go offline for maintenance, the other generators on the grid can start to spin up a short time before power drop actually happens, reducing the amount of oscillation in the grid, which in turn reduces stress on the equipment.
The power distribution network is very fragile on hot high demand days. Non malicious events can cause serious outages, lines overheating and burnings, transformers catching on fire, generator failure. A malicious agent with understanding of the grid could cause serious failure.
You'd need physical access to the telephone line, not to the exchange. If the data was running in a non-encrypted form it would be quite easy to become your own exchange in the middle of the loop. Of course link to link and device to monitoring/control station encryption and authentication would go a long way to fixing this, but if they had this, it's likely we would not be talking about it now.
I'd guess most people here have never read about power grid synchronization. Unless your power grid is DC isolated, it shares data telemetry data with other systems in the grid. Any one of these systems getting hacked can put the entire network at risk. There are many ways to damage a generator if you understand what causes it to trip from the system. Delaying the disconnect from the power grid, for even a short amount of time can cause substantial damage.
Yea, too bad you never executed your right as a citizen (at least in the U.S.) and contacted law enforcement or a lawyer. We have a legal system to deal with this crap... the school is there to educate, not investigate.
Even scarier are the people that understand that everything can be monitored and kept long term. Teachers and school employees are not trained investigators and will likely punish only the dumbest 'cyberbullies'. Have two people you don't like, simply 'Joe Job' the first against the second. What do you mean the internet is an anonymous medium and that anyone could have posted that, we have your picture right here on Myspace staying this! Guilty as charged. Even if the system does fix the current crop of bullies (I don't believe it will), it will create a new generation of smarter bullies.
In the criminal proceedings I've worked on, it's very hard to get evidence from the internet admitted in court. There is too much doubt on its authenticity.
Err, ya, this occurs in the imaginary world you live in. In the real world the socio-economically challenged bullies form their own groups, we typically call them gangs;).
Here in the sunbelt I mount all of our outside wireless equipment in containers with solar fans.
One benefit of an outside camera being wireless is network isolation from lighting strikes. I've seen far too many installations where people don't install one these http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat5-2.php on their externally mounted wired equipment.
When the crime of copyright infringement carries a higher penalty for breaking in to other computers, it will be far smarter for the 'criminals' to hack your computer and use it to share files. Now you have to prove you didn't do it.:)
Go read the Linux Kernel mailing list, and you'll find interactions between the block layer and the virtual memory are one of the most difficult things to make work right in an operating system. The size of the block on the hard disk matters most to the driver, its mostly transparent to the rest of the operating system. The only thing it changes on actual file systems is the minimum filesystem block should be 4K minimum.
You misunderstand the modern production and marketing chain. If it can sit on a shelf, it can sit on a ship. If it can sit on a ship, it can be made in a foreign country with a much poorer standard off living at a greatly reduced cost.
If it can sit on a shelf, it can be batch processed at the time when the main ingredients are at there cheapest, and the line can either be shut down or used for higher profit goods when the commodity prices are not in its favor.
See the issue with food, is we can only consume so much of it. The same amount of food is going to be eaten within a certian margin of error daily by a person. You can replace in a short amount of time with quickly perishalbe products like meat and milk, no non perishables like canned goods. In the end, the same amount of food will be consumed, and the non-perishables are less risky to the seller.
You should see how much memory predicting the weather takes and that's just 4 dimensions (not 248!)
I'm not a meteorologist but I would think weather computations involve many move then 4 dimensions when computing a forecast. With only four, your predicting a location and a time:).
Longitude, latitude, altitude, and time would only the first four. Wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature, would bring the count up to at least 9. There are probably more I'm not thinking of.
Velocity is irrelevant by itself, you forgot about mass. The kinetic energy (energy of motion) of a moving object is linear with both its mass and the square of its velocity:
Ev = 1/2mv(squared)
4000lbs X 120MPH vs 1/2 oz X 1800 FPS = splat if it hits you. Remember folks, more people are killed by cars every year in the US then by guns.
So when your the designated driver you want the car to shut off because of your friends... sounds smart. Or how about when Bob the diabetic drinks too much and needs a trip to the hospital.
Using any non consumable alcohol based products (cleaners, etc...) would presumably cause issues too.
Certain forms of depression, as well as some child behavior issues, can be alleviated with regular exposure to adequate levels of light.
GO OUTSIDE!
I promise the sun won't kill you for a few minutes a day. And if your a darker skinned race, you need at least 60 minutes of sunlight exposure a week. Vitamin D is your friend.
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Evidently you have not read the KB article and the problem that users (and I) have had. From the KB: "To resolve the Automatic Updates problem (and to protect your computer against vulnerabilities) go to either the Windows Update or Microsoft Update web sites and install any needed Windows Service Packs or updates. Once you have downloaded and installed at least one critical update from the Windows Update or Microsoft Update web site, Automatic Updates will once again correctly detect, download or install Windows Service Packs or security updates depending on what settings you have selected for Automatic Updates on your computer." The problem is this does not occur. I've seen issues where windows update will not load, either a blank page after some time or the little bar scrolls forever. Without deleting certain system directories and re-registering system files will will not be able to receive automatic updates again.
Linux is far easier to repair if broken. It isn't actively thinking your hacking/copying/pirating it and trying to lock your ass out. I can always boot off a live CD and relocate the glibc/kernel rpms if I jack the system libraries. Most times you'll never need to go that far.
On the other notes, open source good, proprietary bad. Yes, I know it's not that simple in practice.
Leased line networks are a security through obscurity measure that can contribute to poor security policies if used alone. Yes, they do reduce your exposure that the public internet gives, but are not a end all solution. A.) Is the telephone company really providing a hardware dedicated path with your leased line, or is it being muxed over other hardware where it is vulnerable to interception. B.) Is your leased line secure from someone digging up your line and intercepting your signal. At T1 can be pretty easy to find in a large bundle if it's the only high voltage pair. C.) Is your network secure from some jackass plugging in a wireless device to an ethernet jack. D.) It doesn't matter if the power generation station is secure if the control monitoring stations are not. As I've stated in a previous post, the power grid is very complex. A generator cannot respond instantly to changes in the grid, it is controlled by a mechanical process on one end. Fire, steam, water pressure cannot change instantly to the demands of a grid. If the generator can foresee a change occur it can spin up/down before it needs to. For example if a large generator is going to go offline for maintenance, the other generators on the grid can start to spin up a short time before power drop actually happens, reducing the amount of oscillation in the grid, which in turn reduces stress on the equipment. The power distribution network is very fragile on hot high demand days. Non malicious events can cause serious outages, lines overheating and burnings, transformers catching on fire, generator failure. A malicious agent with understanding of the grid could cause serious failure.
You'd need physical access to the telephone line, not to the exchange. If the data was running in a non-encrypted form it would be quite easy to become your own exchange in the middle of the loop. Of course link to link and device to monitoring/control station encryption and authentication would go a long way to fixing this, but if they had this, it's likely we would not be talking about it now.
I'd guess most people here have never read about power grid synchronization. Unless your power grid is DC isolated, it shares data telemetry data with other systems in the grid. Any one of these systems getting hacked can put the entire network at risk. There are many ways to damage a generator if you understand what causes it to trip from the system. Delaying the disconnect from the power grid, for even a short amount of time can cause substantial damage.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.engineering.electrical/browse_thread/thread/c6a2399745b5413a/dcdf9906b70b85b1%23dcdf9906b70b85b1http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=power+grid+synchronization+failure&btnG=Search
Yea, modems were never hacked either... Guess you were still in diapers before the 90's.
Yea, too bad you never executed your right as a citizen (at least in the U.S.) and contacted law enforcement or a lawyer. We have a legal system to deal with this crap... the school is there to educate, not investigate.
Even scarier are the people that understand that everything can be monitored and kept long term. Teachers and school employees are not trained investigators and will likely punish only the dumbest 'cyberbullies'. Have two people you don't like, simply 'Joe Job' the first against the second. What do you mean the internet is an anonymous medium and that anyone could have posted that, we have your picture right here on Myspace staying this! Guilty as charged. Even if the system does fix the current crop of bullies (I don't believe it will), it will create a new generation of smarter bullies.
In the criminal proceedings I've worked on, it's very hard to get evidence from the internet admitted in court. There is too much doubt on its authenticity.
Err, ya, this occurs in the imaginary world you live in. In the real world the socio-economically challenged bullies form their own groups, we typically call them gangs ;).
People that can be put anywhere and act "smart" are still a ways off...
Here in the sunbelt I mount all of our outside wireless equipment in containers with solar fans. One benefit of an outside camera being wireless is network isolation from lighting strikes. I've seen far too many installations where people don't install one these http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat5-2.php on their externally mounted wired equipment.
When the crime of copyright infringement carries a higher penalty for breaking in to other computers, it will be far smarter for the 'criminals' to hack your computer and use it to share files. Now you have to prove you didn't do it. :)
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If you don't look, you'll never know.
Next you're going to ask what could go wrong with the source code on a electronic voting machine.
Your BOFH license is revoked.
What's so hard about that?
Go read the Linux Kernel mailing list, and you'll find interactions between the block layer and the virtual memory are one of the most difficult things to make work right in an operating system. The size of the block on the hard disk matters most to the driver, its mostly transparent to the rest of the operating system. The only thing it changes on actual file systems is the minimum filesystem block should be 4K minimum.
Remember FDA testing requires money, not idealism. If you can't patent it, it's unlikely that any research dollars are going to go in to test it.
You misunderstand the modern production and marketing chain. If it can sit on a shelf, it can sit on a ship. If it can sit on a ship, it can be made in a foreign country with a much poorer standard off living at a greatly reduced cost. If it can sit on a shelf, it can be batch processed at the time when the main ingredients are at there cheapest, and the line can either be shut down or used for higher profit goods when the commodity prices are not in its favor. See the issue with food, is we can only consume so much of it. The same amount of food is going to be eaten within a certian margin of error daily by a person. You can replace in a short amount of time with quickly perishalbe products like meat and milk, no non perishables like canned goods. In the end, the same amount of food will be consumed, and the non-perishables are less risky to the seller.
Is that even possible... I mean unless Disney starts up an XXX line porn is pretty much everywhere already.
I'm not a meteorologist but I would think weather computations involve many move then 4 dimensions when computing a forecast. With only four, your predicting a location and a time :).
Longitude, latitude, altitude, and time would only the first four. Wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature, would bring the count up to at least 9. There are probably more I'm not thinking of.Velocity is irrelevant by itself, you forgot about mass. The kinetic energy (energy of motion) of a moving object is linear with both its mass and the square of its velocity:
Ev = 1/2mv(squared)
4000lbs X 120MPH vs 1/2 oz X 1800 FPS = splat if it hits you. Remember folks, more people are killed by cars every year in the US then by guns.
So when your the designated driver you want the car to shut off because of your friends... sounds smart. Or how about when Bob the diabetic drinks too much and needs a trip to the hospital.
Using any non consumable alcohol based products (cleaners, etc...) would presumably cause issues too.
I am going to give my girlfriend one of these so I can stalk her.
Certain forms of depression, as well as some child behavior issues, can be alleviated with regular exposure to adequate levels of light.
GO OUTSIDE!
I promise the sun won't kill you for a few minutes a day. And if your a darker skinned race, you need at least 60 minutes of sunlight exposure a week. Vitamin D is your friend.
My jaded opinion is that the security features are there to keep you from breaking the DRM, but what do I know.