First of all, you balk at the cost of some of these solutions - yes, they are expensive and yes, they'll be mostly for added assurance that IF someone breaks in and IF the alarm wasn't set and IF the thief is even interested in it and IF the thief then decides to take it (lot's of if's). If your setup is mobile (eg. you're a DJ or mobile contractor) then those solutions are useful. But for the rest, they are merely added insurance and typically useless.
I'd say, use an alarm system that you can connect to (some of the DIY systems do run Linux) and use some type of motion sensing timeout to set the alarm or use BT to check if someone is still in the house etc. etc.. There are a lot of cheap and creative solutions to this problem.
Most thieves won't break in if you have an alarm (sticker), there are other, lower hanging fruit. A thief won't break in when you have a dog (again with the fruit thing). A thief will only take what's small and valuable (what's easily sold, what's easily carried). Most thieves aren't smart nor tech savvy and doesn't know that little black box costs $5000 but they'll sure destroy it regardless of whether there is an alarm attached to it (especially if there is an alarm attached to it).
I'd say, stop worrying, take backups of your data off-site, get homeowners or renters insurance. The laptops/tablets/phones will disappear in any case, the UPS/PC/NAS most likely won't unless there is a group and they are actively clearing out the entire house (posing as movers to the neighbors). Thieves are also very destructive so regardless of what they take, they may destroy whatever you're trying to protect and a destroyed NAS is just as good as a stolen NAS. Theft recovery systems don't work because the police won't put in the legwork (see the recurring stories on MacBooks and iOS devices being located by the customer). The insurance will pay you back for the 'stuff', they can't recovery your data however and that is the case for fire, flood and other damage as well.
That's what I mean, after the additional time for processing it would easily double the latency. The problem with USB is that even throwing a bigger box at it won't help, the latency is inherent to the protocol.
Power train warranty only covers the motor, the transmission and parts of the drivetrain. My car has a little over 100k on it and currently requires repairs on the shocks, new muffler and wheel bearings as well as several sensors (oxygen and coolant level - both of which make the car fail inspection). Total cost would be $5k.
Got a new motor control computer (one day, the car didn't start, couldn't move it out of park, $1.5k), 2 EGR valves ($300 per) and new heated seats under extended warranty (would've cost $700). Already went through 2 batteries ($50 each) and 2 sets of tires ($400 each). I live up north so ice, snow, rain, salt eat away anything that's thin about a car.
I've found ICE engines are very complex beasts and very expensive and time consuming to maintain and fuel. Replacing a battery every decade or so wouldn't be too big of a deal.
You're just a statistical anomaly with your anecdotal evidence. Most people barely make it to 75k regardless of brand before replacing something that costs near the $5-7k at which point it's usually cheaper to just buy a new car. Especially luxury car repairs (which the Tesla is at this point) can double that cost not to mention the fact that you need oil changes and other repairs specific to ICE engines (mufflers, control valves, cooling) which again, you won't walk out of a Mercedes garage without $100 for an oil change. Electric motors are not only more resilient, they also require no maintenance, don't need extensive regulators, doesn't need liquid cooling and doesn't produce the heat nor vibrations that cause extra stress on other systems.
The problem with all USB to this point is the fact that it has been largely CPU bound. PCIe, Thunderbolt, SCSI, FireWire are DMA devices, not without it's risks but with proper management the performance is leaps and bounds above USB - sure it costs a little extra but that point quickly becomes moot when you see the benefits.
USB is fine for mice and keyboards and some other low-bandwidth and very cheap things. FireWire has been doing low-latency audio and video (high-res) since it's inception. Even full-speed USB2 on a modern computer has difficulties getting a VGA frame buffer to work properly while studios have been able to live-edit multiple streams using FireWire since the PowerMac G5.
Great feel-good job, you won't make much money, they won't either so we'll all be poor together. Income equalization. Why does the company not invest in such talent? Don't they want to make their customers successful? Off course not, micro finance is just the new way of doing donations for Africa of the 80's and 90's - 80% of it sticks in the company's pocket, and 20% are bribes to local officials.
What's so difficult about updating a 2001 Linux to a more modern system? If you've kept up to date on the software updates the system will have updated throughout the years. It's not hard.
I call bullshit on the claim that you need to train people. I stick people in front of Mac/Linux systems ALL THE TIME because that's what we run and most scientific software runs on those platforms.
After a quick primer (if that's even necessary) on how to find the application they need (3 clicks or less), most people will find their way around and find it a lot easier than monkeying around with virtual machines or VisualStudio to compile something.
But you'd have to prod that data to pass that line though. That's probably why they can only access the data that is basically already visible through the locked front screen (messages, photos).
Either way, if my phone were confiscated for whatever reason, the first thing that would happen is a remote wipe - basically a deadman's switch, if my phone doesn't check into a server every 12 hours, it wipes. Backups are also encrypted and can be restored in less than 5 minutes (there is no data locally that isn't synced) so accidents are a minor inconvenience.
Wasn't there a story a couple of years ago that Blackberry DID have backdoors to both BES and their own system and shared it with not just US but also Indian and other governments around the world.
Neither Blackberry nor any other corporation is to be trusted, as long as your security is closed source or you have no control over it, it is to be seen as compromised. Use open source security on your OWN systems, that's the only way to be halfway sure that there are no immediate backdoors.
If there were a master key, they would be able to get the whole system and also, it would be trivial for someone to find/leak that key and every single device would be at risk. Also, having encryption with 2 simultaneous private keys is impossible if you don't have access to both keys at time of encryption (and hardcoding a key in software would defeat the purpose of the encryption all-together). The device self-destructs when attempting brute forces so that's not it either. I'd say they can access 'some' data, the same data which is displayed on the front of your phone without being unlocked (a set of photo's, last dozen or so text messages, alerts) which live in RAM or on the 'OS' side of the storage.
You're missing the point of the paper. The paper is not there to show "new shapes" that is the reporter that clearly doesn't understand what's going on saying that.
The paper explains HOW these things happen and HOW specific shapes can be modeled (aka calculated or created on purpose) in function of various forces and aspect ratios. They for example, show how to consistently get such a 'kink' (perversion) like the one in your phone cord on every "turn".
You may have a hard drive or hard drive data consistency issue... that is practically the only reason OS X UI hangs, the kernel scheduler makes sure of that.
As was IDE vs. SCSI and FireWire vs. USB and now Thunderbolt vs. USB3. In the end, the professionals and geeks are always going to want the best and know what they need to work efficiently, home users will always get sold the cheapest and worst option (and they won't even know).
There is no such thing as a 2008 Mac Mini, you probably got a Mid 2007 Mac Mini which runs up to Mac OS X 10.7.5 which is still supported and can actually take up to 3GB of memory (2GB was the maximum configuration by Apple).
If you want to, you can install Linux on the machine. I don't know why NewEgg would crap out on the browser because that Safari supports common versions of ECMAScript and HTML5, try Firefox otherwise.
There is very little US-brewed beer that is drinkable. Maybe Sam Adams and some microbreweries but most of the decent ones are imported regardless where these rules don't apply.
The wording is pretty clear. Back then they were starting to get some 'machine guns' and they've had cannons and explosives for a while, any futurist was talking about such weaponry and machines that fought wars. They knew governments and other rich entities were going to have the first and most access to new weaponry and were going to use it to suppress any uprisings. They also knew any government, even their own, was going to become corrupt and heavy handed and eventually degrade into something akin to their monarchy with heavy taxation without representation (it only took 200 years for their own government to do that).
The right for the people to have a "well regulated militia" is pretty clear to me, it's a militia (which doesn't have to be controlled by any particular government) that is well-regulated (they have a purpose to exist and are under a command) shall not be infringed upon.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed either. There is no statement there that clarifies what type of weaponry or when someone can bear arms because then an oppressive government could rule out eg. all automatic weapons or anyone who's not a leftie.
And does that mean that anyone can have a shotgun: yes, an ak-47: yes, an atomic or biological weapon: yes. The old government has it, why wouldn't a new government need it? And if an individual becomes a problem, the 'well regulated militia' can take care of it. If a group of individuals becomes a problem, we're talking about throwing over the old government, that was it's intended purpose.
Nuclear reactors aren't nuclear bombs. You need to refine the fission material very well in said reactors and then re-refine it in more specialized reactors to get a material that has the potential of wiping a large area. Even then, the offensive material degrades very quickly to manageable levels, Hiroshima or even the Nevada desert is far from uninhabitable, Chernobyl even continued generating electricity in it's other reactors for 20 years after the disaster. Even Three Mile Island, which was in a relatively densely populated area of the world is only expected to maybe cause ~300 cancers, far less than the average coal plant in it's life time.
For years, Microsoft has been attempting to rent out their software instead of selling it outright. Having a yearly cost for an OS or Office suite is what they've been attempting to do for years.
It started with their Enterprise licensing where they started charging "Software Update Assurance", basically for a yearly cost per computer you 'rent' any version of their software (usually a Windows/Office/CAL combo). Then they went to Office365 where you paid for both storage, server and the desktop software on a yearly basis outright, no more buying the Office suite, no more buying Exchange and also, you're locked in because you can't get your data out anymore. Now they've come full circle where you rent their OS suite. Since they've tested the waters over the last 2 decades and know that large companies rather remain locked in because it's a cheaper solution for the next quarter, they can now keep raising their prices as they're doing with Software Update Assurance (it went up 30% last year), Office365 and now Windows ($200/year). Expect the next Windows to cost a pretty penny on a yearly basis as well.
Entry level Indian/Pakistani are still cheaper. What needs to happen is that H1B's should by law have 150% of the median income for the area for that type of job and an additional 50% invested in local education programs
Most distros will have the rules in a single script, they are really easy to read, modify and understand. I don't understand what good a GUI would do for something as simple and important as a rule-based firewall, GUIs only hides things.
Of the top of my head: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -P INPUT -j DROP iptables -P OUTPUT -j ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD -j DROP
To get a detailed overview of the rules: iptables -nLv
If you need any simpler, just go with the defaults your distro has to offer, they'll be secure.
Fukushima is not a hot spot. There is a lot of media surrounding it and sure, there may be some "bad things" there but there isn't life threatening Chernobyl-level activity (and even Chernobyl wasn't all that bad). I also wouldn't be concerned about Buchanan, NY getting hit by a tsunami, Long Island and NYC are among a few of the things that have to be passed by (and those would dissipate most/all of the energy). And if a tsunami hit there, well, then, we'd have more serious things to be concerned about like your survival among the remaining 10% of the species on earth.
This however does not set one free from tort. The liability claims, regardless whether it's an employee on the job or a customer getting hurt on your premises or using your products, will most likely be paid out by the insurance or your company but if it can be proven that it was through your action or inaction, you can still be held accountable for it.
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First of all, you balk at the cost of some of these solutions - yes, they are expensive and yes, they'll be mostly for added assurance that IF someone breaks in and IF the alarm wasn't set and IF the thief is even interested in it and IF the thief then decides to take it (lot's of if's). If your setup is mobile (eg. you're a DJ or mobile contractor) then those solutions are useful. But for the rest, they are merely added insurance and typically useless.
I'd say, use an alarm system that you can connect to (some of the DIY systems do run Linux) and use some type of motion sensing timeout to set the alarm or use BT to check if someone is still in the house etc. etc.. There are a lot of cheap and creative solutions to this problem.
Most thieves won't break in if you have an alarm (sticker), there are other, lower hanging fruit. A thief won't break in when you have a dog (again with the fruit thing). A thief will only take what's small and valuable (what's easily sold, what's easily carried). Most thieves aren't smart nor tech savvy and doesn't know that little black box costs $5000 but they'll sure destroy it regardless of whether there is an alarm attached to it (especially if there is an alarm attached to it).
I'd say, stop worrying, take backups of your data off-site, get homeowners or renters insurance. The laptops/tablets/phones will disappear in any case, the UPS/PC/NAS most likely won't unless there is a group and they are actively clearing out the entire house (posing as movers to the neighbors). Thieves are also very destructive so regardless of what they take, they may destroy whatever you're trying to protect and a destroyed NAS is just as good as a stolen NAS. Theft recovery systems don't work because the police won't put in the legwork (see the recurring stories on MacBooks and iOS devices being located by the customer). The insurance will pay you back for the 'stuff', they can't recovery your data however and that is the case for fire, flood and other damage as well.
That's what I mean, after the additional time for processing it would easily double the latency. The problem with USB is that even throwing a bigger box at it won't help, the latency is inherent to the protocol.
Power train warranty only covers the motor, the transmission and parts of the drivetrain. My car has a little over 100k on it and currently requires repairs on the shocks, new muffler and wheel bearings as well as several sensors (oxygen and coolant level - both of which make the car fail inspection). Total cost would be $5k.
Got a new motor control computer (one day, the car didn't start, couldn't move it out of park, $1.5k), 2 EGR valves ($300 per) and new heated seats under extended warranty (would've cost $700). Already went through 2 batteries ($50 each) and 2 sets of tires ($400 each). I live up north so ice, snow, rain, salt eat away anything that's thin about a car.
I've found ICE engines are very complex beasts and very expensive and time consuming to maintain and fuel. Replacing a battery every decade or so wouldn't be too big of a deal.
You're just a statistical anomaly with your anecdotal evidence. Most people barely make it to 75k regardless of brand before replacing something that costs near the $5-7k at which point it's usually cheaper to just buy a new car. Especially luxury car repairs (which the Tesla is at this point) can double that cost not to mention the fact that you need oil changes and other repairs specific to ICE engines (mufflers, control valves, cooling) which again, you won't walk out of a Mercedes garage without $100 for an oil change. Electric motors are not only more resilient, they also require no maintenance, don't need extensive regulators, doesn't need liquid cooling and doesn't produce the heat nor vibrations that cause extra stress on other systems.
Yes. 8ms of delay is audible across the entire frequency range and would sound like an echo or reverb after the additional time for processing.
The problem with all USB to this point is the fact that it has been largely CPU bound. PCIe, Thunderbolt, SCSI, FireWire are DMA devices, not without it's risks but with proper management the performance is leaps and bounds above USB - sure it costs a little extra but that point quickly becomes moot when you see the benefits.
USB is fine for mice and keyboards and some other low-bandwidth and very cheap things. FireWire has been doing low-latency audio and video (high-res) since it's inception. Even full-speed USB2 on a modern computer has difficulties getting a VGA frame buffer to work properly while studios have been able to live-edit multiple streams using FireWire since the PowerMac G5.
Great feel-good job, you won't make much money, they won't either so we'll all be poor together. Income equalization. Why does the company not invest in such talent? Don't they want to make their customers successful? Off course not, micro finance is just the new way of doing donations for Africa of the 80's and 90's - 80% of it sticks in the company's pocket, and 20% are bribes to local officials.
What's so difficult about updating a 2001 Linux to a more modern system? If you've kept up to date on the software updates the system will have updated throughout the years. It's not hard.
I call bullshit on the claim that you need to train people. I stick people in front of Mac/Linux systems ALL THE TIME because that's what we run and most scientific software runs on those platforms.
After a quick primer (if that's even necessary) on how to find the application they need (3 clicks or less), most people will find their way around and find it a lot easier than monkeying around with virtual machines or VisualStudio to compile something.
But you'd have to prod that data to pass that line though. That's probably why they can only access the data that is basically already visible through the locked front screen (messages, photos).
Either way, if my phone were confiscated for whatever reason, the first thing that would happen is a remote wipe - basically a deadman's switch, if my phone doesn't check into a server every 12 hours, it wipes. Backups are also encrypted and can be restored in less than 5 minutes (there is no data locally that isn't synced) so accidents are a minor inconvenience.
Wasn't there a story a couple of years ago that Blackberry DID have backdoors to both BES and their own system and shared it with not just US but also Indian and other governments around the world.
Neither Blackberry nor any other corporation is to be trusted, as long as your security is closed source or you have no control over it, it is to be seen as compromised. Use open source security on your OWN systems, that's the only way to be halfway sure that there are no immediate backdoors.
If there were a master key, they would be able to get the whole system and also, it would be trivial for someone to find/leak that key and every single device would be at risk. Also, having encryption with 2 simultaneous private keys is impossible if you don't have access to both keys at time of encryption (and hardcoding a key in software would defeat the purpose of the encryption all-together). The device self-destructs when attempting brute forces so that's not it either. I'd say they can access 'some' data, the same data which is displayed on the front of your phone without being unlocked (a set of photo's, last dozen or so text messages, alerts) which live in RAM or on the 'OS' side of the storage.
You're missing the point of the paper. The paper is not there to show "new shapes" that is the reporter that clearly doesn't understand what's going on saying that.
The paper explains HOW these things happen and HOW specific shapes can be modeled (aka calculated or created on purpose) in function of various forces and aspect ratios. They for example, show how to consistently get such a 'kink' (perversion) like the one in your phone cord on every "turn".
You may have a hard drive or hard drive data consistency issue... that is practically the only reason OS X UI hangs, the kernel scheduler makes sure of that.
As was IDE vs. SCSI and FireWire vs. USB and now Thunderbolt vs. USB3. In the end, the professionals and geeks are always going to want the best and know what they need to work efficiently, home users will always get sold the cheapest and worst option (and they won't even know).
There is no such thing as a 2008 Mac Mini, you probably got a Mid 2007 Mac Mini which runs up to Mac OS X 10.7.5 which is still supported and can actually take up to 3GB of memory (2GB was the maximum configuration by Apple).
If you want to, you can install Linux on the machine. I don't know why NewEgg would crap out on the browser because that Safari supports common versions of ECMAScript and HTML5, try Firefox otherwise.
There is very little US-brewed beer that is drinkable. Maybe Sam Adams and some microbreweries but most of the decent ones are imported regardless where these rules don't apply.
The wording is pretty clear. Back then they were starting to get some 'machine guns' and they've had cannons and explosives for a while, any futurist was talking about such weaponry and machines that fought wars. They knew governments and other rich entities were going to have the first and most access to new weaponry and were going to use it to suppress any uprisings. They also knew any government, even their own, was going to become corrupt and heavy handed and eventually degrade into something akin to their monarchy with heavy taxation without representation (it only took 200 years for their own government to do that).
The right for the people to have a "well regulated militia" is pretty clear to me, it's a militia (which doesn't have to be controlled by any particular government) that is well-regulated (they have a purpose to exist and are under a command) shall not be infringed upon.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed either. There is no statement there that clarifies what type of weaponry or when someone can bear arms because then an oppressive government could rule out eg. all automatic weapons or anyone who's not a leftie.
And does that mean that anyone can have a shotgun: yes, an ak-47: yes, an atomic or biological weapon: yes. The old government has it, why wouldn't a new government need it? And if an individual becomes a problem, the 'well regulated militia' can take care of it. If a group of individuals becomes a problem, we're talking about throwing over the old government, that was it's intended purpose.
Nuclear reactors aren't nuclear bombs. You need to refine the fission material very well in said reactors and then re-refine it in more specialized reactors to get a material that has the potential of wiping a large area. Even then, the offensive material degrades very quickly to manageable levels, Hiroshima or even the Nevada desert is far from uninhabitable, Chernobyl even continued generating electricity in it's other reactors for 20 years after the disaster. Even Three Mile Island, which was in a relatively densely populated area of the world is only expected to maybe cause ~300 cancers, far less than the average coal plant in it's life time.
For years, Microsoft has been attempting to rent out their software instead of selling it outright. Having a yearly cost for an OS or Office suite is what they've been attempting to do for years.
It started with their Enterprise licensing where they started charging "Software Update Assurance", basically for a yearly cost per computer you 'rent' any version of their software (usually a Windows/Office/CAL combo). Then they went to Office365 where you paid for both storage, server and the desktop software on a yearly basis outright, no more buying the Office suite, no more buying Exchange and also, you're locked in because you can't get your data out anymore. Now they've come full circle where you rent their OS suite. Since they've tested the waters over the last 2 decades and know that large companies rather remain locked in because it's a cheaper solution for the next quarter, they can now keep raising their prices as they're doing with Software Update Assurance (it went up 30% last year), Office365 and now Windows ($200/year). Expect the next Windows to cost a pretty penny on a yearly basis as well.
Entry level Indian/Pakistani are still cheaper. What needs to happen is that H1B's should by law have 150% of the median income for the area for that type of job and an additional 50% invested in local education programs
Most distros will have the rules in a single script, they are really easy to read, modify and understand. I don't understand what good a GUI would do for something as simple and important as a rule-based firewall, GUIs only hides things.
Of the top of my head:
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p 22 -j ACCEPT
iptables -P INPUT -j DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT -j ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD -j DROP
To get a detailed overview of the rules:
iptables -nLv
If you need any simpler, just go with the defaults your distro has to offer, they'll be secure.
Fukushima is not a hot spot. There is a lot of media surrounding it and sure, there may be some "bad things" there but there isn't life threatening Chernobyl-level activity (and even Chernobyl wasn't all that bad). I also wouldn't be concerned about Buchanan, NY getting hit by a tsunami, Long Island and NYC are among a few of the things that have to be passed by (and those would dissipate most/all of the energy). And if a tsunami hit there, well, then, we'd have more serious things to be concerned about like your survival among the remaining 10% of the species on earth.
This however does not set one free from tort. The liability claims, regardless whether it's an employee on the job or a customer getting hurt on your premises or using your products, will most likely be paid out by the insurance or your company but if it can be proven that it was through your action or inaction, you can still be held accountable for it.
So can you find Area 51 or a number of 'secret' bases on US maps?