investigate, and pick a venue wherein travel data is guaranteed not to be shared with the US.
To my knowledge, when you rule out US and EU, you have ruled out much of the English-speaking world. Some places in Asia may be ok, but I've never been there without a lot of jet lag, so I can't really remember.
Perhaps that Linux users make an effort to leaarn themselves, and Windows users just ask the kid next door?
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I'm just a little Aussie, and over here, when you get the admin password, you suddenly have to fix every little problem with the network. Which I can do, I guess. And judging by the state of the network after Nimda went loose, I can tell that patches weren't high on the agenda of the real IT people.
I knew that spending 2 hours a week of my school week when I was 7 learning to use a mouse would make me good at computers. I would be a perfect computer user, if just I didn't have the winmodem, and I could download some Fedora ISOs;)
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Exact opposite at my school (I'm in year 9 now).
Usually there were about 5 nerds at my school in year 6/7 (including me) who had root privs. Then the new tech guy came, and conveniently changed the passwords without telling anyone. Including the IT coordinator. And left for the rest of the week. I always wondered why there couldn't be an admin there more than 1.5 days a week. Two years later, at high school, I found the tech working there for the rest of the week. No root privs anymore though, and I can't stand not being able to fix my problems myself.
To be honest, I'd rather have to do AV work on one virus 70% of the time, and spend the other 30% fixing a couple of others. Maybe write a script if need be, and 70% of the time, I just do the same thing over and over.
Or, you could spend 10% of the time working on each of 10 viruses. Suddenly, you think, I wish I could be 70% sure what the problem will be, it is alot easier.
Although this only really applies to the nailed-to-a-tree test, where the nail goes through will matter. In DIL ICs, most of the area is taken up by connections to the pins. If these cards have the core close to the edge with the connectors, and a nail is put through the center, it could miss the core entirely. And if the nail went through the bridges, a data recovery person could wire a reader the the connectors inside the package.
I'd rather have a router that works well enough for my home net now than server-running-debian-stable perfect in 6 months. Especially when said perfction can be achieved with a bios flash. And we may want new features, anyway.
This story seems quite similar to a previous one about using DNS for communications, from LayerOne. Incredibly stupid to use for mainstream communications, but perfect for hackers, with low data requirements, anyway.
His boss could very well have been evaluating division salaries, writing a bonus recommendation letter for Vernon (the overzealous sysadmin), or a wide range of other private matters
If this was the case, there wouldn't have been any reason to release the information. The reason that this happened, is because when he got the screenshots, there wasn't proprietary information, just soliaire. Read the stats:
293 (approx. 71%) of the screenshots documented active, on-going
games of solitaire.
87 (approx. 21%) of the screenshots documented web site visits, email
subscriptions, and other miscellaneous non-job related activities
consisting mostly of personal financial and stock market research.
29 (approx. 7%) of the screenshots indicated some job related activities,
mostly consisting of an "I concur" in an email response. However, solitaire
was minimized (hidden) for quick retrieval on most of these screens.
1 % or less of the screenshots were inconclusive as far as the type of activity.
No screenshots (0%) documented any job-related activities such as word
processing, spreadsheets, databases, job related websites, electronic
document management, right-of-way plans standards, etc.
I understand that people do other things while they think something over - but having solitaire or another non-work-related window open 99% of the time is going a bit far, isn't it?
The important question is how can you put up with playing solitaire 71% of the time for 105 days? Is his job really that boring?
Well, it's not something that happens to me, but some of my friends have started a band, and have started selling CDs this year. Not a crippled, DRM encumbered, unusable-on-computer CD, but just a nice, shiny, disc with 44.1kHz WAVs on it, which I can play on anything.
And you know something? They're not going through an evil empire to sell CDs, they're happy to play it, and accept that some people will just get it from KaZaa. Don't pretend that it's the artists who are the ones complaining about P2P, because it's just the record company execs, worried that they can't control all music distribution. I find it refreshing to know that at least some record companies are willing to focus more on putting out good music than stripping away consumer rights.
You have laws set for a reason
And that reason is because the RIAA:
Says so
Gets Hatch to pass more laws under the guise of Protect the children/artists from the evil P2P
Makes people think "Well, it's the law, so it MUST be right, and we'll all just follow blindly"
And finally, anyone in Australia, buy a Grannyflat cd.
The only thing is that that window on the site doesn't have the web developer toolbar, the bookmark toolbar, and my 15 tabs, so for me it's easy to tell the difference. But it scares me too.
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You can put a tungsten plate in front of the electron-beam, but I don't know about wiring.
A tree is a lot more of an obstacle to a 1mW red laser pointer than it is to 2.4GHz microwaves.
The unit conversions aren't as easy though, and how quickly can you tell me how many feet are in 3.8 miles? That's where metric comes out ahead.
I'd be fine with it if all imperial measurements were base-12, but it's the inconsistency between units that is why I don't like it.
it allows one to easily divide dimensions into thirds, something that's a PITA in the metric world
To be more accurate, you can't divide powers of ten by three. A third of 12cm is 4cm. A third of 10in is 3.333333 recurring inches.
Ummm....perhaps because in the US, it seems like alot of you don't know how far a kilometer is.
I use metric though (Australia). Don't know how you USAnians do without it.
protect abortion providers and track down anti-abortion killers
If not all of your AGs want to stop people getting murdered, your country has gone further downhill than I thought.
My god, what if Australia does something policically unpopular while I'm there!
Don't worry, the election's coming soon.
investigate, and pick a venue wherein travel data is guaranteed not to be shared with the US.
To my knowledge, when you rule out US and EU, you have ruled out much of the English-speaking world. Some places in Asia may be ok, but I've never been there without a lot of jet lag, so I can't really remember.
Perhaps that Linux users make an effort to leaarn themselves, and Windows users just ask the kid next door?
I'm just a little Aussie, and over here, when you get the admin password, you suddenly have to fix every little problem with the network. Which I can do, I guess. And judging by the state of the network after Nimda went loose, I can tell that patches weren't high on the agenda of the real IT people.
;)
I knew that spending 2 hours a week of my school week when I was 7 learning to use a mouse would make me good at computers. I would be a perfect computer user, if just I didn't have the winmodem, and I could download some Fedora ISOs
Exact opposite at my school (I'm in year 9 now).
Usually there were about 5 nerds at my school in year 6/7 (including me) who had root privs. Then the new tech guy came, and conveniently changed the passwords without telling anyone. Including the IT coordinator. And left for the rest of the week. I always wondered why there couldn't be an admin there more than 1.5 days a week. Two years later, at high school, I found the tech working there for the rest of the week. No root privs anymore though, and I can't stand not being able to fix my problems myself.
The benefit was that, unless there was some sort of conspiracy, no one admin could ever login as root by himself and do anything crazy.
Or work in a different room from another admin.
Because a guy with a compiler will do alot less damage than a company with a govenment which will do whatever they say.
Think...how hard is it to clean up Sasser? How hard is it to get DMCA/INDUCE/etc. revoked? Which would you prefer to try?
And the virus writer who can do this has put a lot of effort into it. MPAA/RIAA/SCO just sue people again, and again, and again.
To be honest, I'd rather have to do AV work on one virus 70% of the time, and spend the other 30% fixing a couple of others. Maybe write a script if need be, and 70% of the time, I just do the same thing over and over.
Or, you could spend 10% of the time working on each of 10 viruses. Suddenly, you think, I wish I could be 70% sure what the problem will be, it is alot easier.
But who would have though it would survive the 6-year-old????
Or a lighter, or a cutoff extension cord.
You have yet to explore the many possible ways to destroy an electronic device.
Although this only really applies to the nailed-to-a-tree test, where the nail goes through will matter. In DIL ICs, most of the area is taken up by connections to the pins. If these cards have the core close to the edge with the connectors, and a nail is put through the center, it could miss the core entirely. And if the nail went through the bridges, a data recovery person could wire a reader the the connectors inside the package.
I'd rather have a router that works well enough for my home net now than server-running-debian-stable perfect in 6 months. Especially when said perfction can be achieved with a bios flash. And we may want new features, anyway.
This story seems quite similar to a previous one about using DNS for communications, from LayerOne. Incredibly stupid to use for mainstream communications, but perfect for hackers, with low data requirements, anyway.
If this was the case, there wouldn't have been any reason to release the information. The reason that this happened, is because when he got the screenshots, there wasn't proprietary information, just soliaire. Read the stats:
I understand that people do other things while they think something over - but having solitaire or another non-work-related window open 99% of the time is going a bit far, isn't it?
The important question is how can you put up with playing solitaire 71% of the time for 105 days? Is his job really that boring?
And you know something? They're not going through an evil empire to sell CDs, they're happy to play it, and accept that some people will just get it from KaZaa. Don't pretend that it's the artists who are the ones complaining about P2P, because it's just the record company execs, worried that they can't control all music distribution. I find it refreshing to know that at least some record companies are willing to focus more on putting out good music than stripping away consumer rights.
You have laws set for a reason
And that reason is because the RIAA:
And finally, anyone in Australia, buy a Grannyflat cd.
The only thing is that that window on the site doesn't have the web developer toolbar, the bookmark toolbar, and my 15 tabs, so for me it's easy to tell the difference. But it scares me too.
And let's not forget what happens when you unplug the old battery ;-)
I take it you mean black hat?
Ummmm.....the pad needs to be the same size as the data you send, and since you can't reuse the pad, any system like that won't work.
My 6-year-old brother got to my N64. I eventually got the sand out, though.