Windows 10 logs all keystrokes, and by default sends everything to MS. Allegedly that transfer can be disabled, but not the logging itself. That info was taken from above.
That'd be a neat trick, when you're using full system encryption, it logging keystrokes before the OS even starts (which is where you put in your TrueCrypt passphrase.)
Should be noted, TrueCrypt 7.1a (last full version) works fine with Windows 10 if you're really concerned about someone thieving your data. I highly doubt the OS has your TrueCrypt keys if you use this solution, Microsoft account or not.
If you're confident your system is secure against intrusions and you're monitoring things this closely, a port scan is... nothing. Who cares? It's intrusions you care about, not probes. Just be sure anything you have open is secured. Monitor attempts to attack anything opened to the world.
I personally don't monitor for port scans, I really don't care. Anything open on my servers is either secured, monitored, or if it's a legacy service I'm unsure about, sandboxed (chrooted, unprivileged, etc) to minimize any intrusion into it from causing any damage to the rest of the system.
4 hard drives. Two operating in RAID1 in a Linux file server (CIFS.) 1 external hard drive which weekly automated backups are sent to. 1 external hard drive which is manually mirrored from the other external once every few months and stored in a safe place.
RAID1 lost a drive a couple months ago, no biggy, just replaced it, didn't lose a thing. The super sensitive irreplaceables (my source code primarily) are kept in a TrueCrypt volume on my AWS server. Just extra insurance against house burning to the ground or something.
I don't really care for all the fancy junk. I just use CIFS behind firewalls/over VPN's to shuffle files around as needed. Keep it simple, stupid!
I think if someone invents such a contraption, they stand to make WAY more than a $250k prize by patenting and manufacturing the thing themselves and selling it to farmers. Really. Who would be stupid enough to give away such an invention for a mere $250k?
You can thank years and years of spammers. The sad part to me isn't really that independent hosts are consider spam by default, its the fact, even that being the case, my independent hosted email accounts are *STILL* getting hundreds of spam mails each day. Very annoying.
The article ask us what we'd like them to do. I'd like them to call me if there's a suspicious charge on my card. Ask me about it, make sure it's ok. If I can't be reached, then sure, reverse the charge and shut off my card, but at least make an attempt to contact and verify rather than just assume!
This is a Use Tax, which has been ruled legal 100 times before (perhaps hyperbole, perhaps not).
I just had to snicker when you said it was a "Use Tax", a very difficult to collect and enforce kind of tax. I lived in a state with Use Tax once.. never paid it either. Use Taxes are silly, they actually say something like if you buy a tank of gas in another state, you have to pay Use Tax on the gas you have remaining when you re-enter the state with the Use Tax. Insanity tax. Good luck with that, Chicago.
Not a denier, but I think there's a few things to understand. One, look at the history of this world, it's atmosphere has changed composition many many times through its long history, before we were even a dream in our ancestral DNA.
Two, the amount of change occurring seems to me to vastly over stated. There's change. Sure we caused it, we're a part of this planet, our activities affect the planet. Have to a utter moron to deny that.
Three, on a whole, the big picture, civilization on the whole, is not changing, and its not going to change. We're going to keep building factories and cutting down forests. No matter how loudly you people scream, business will go on.
And most important of all! We are humans, the most adaptable creature this planet has produced so far. We will adapt to the changes around us. Also, there's this talk of 'positive feedback', a cycle has been started that feeds back on itself and grows, we have NO CLUE how to stop it, even if we stopped all emissions this very instant, the feedback loop has already begun. We will simply have to adapt now. Good thing we're the most adaptable species on the earth.
The only debatable point in this whole argument is.. how fast? Stuff is changing, the only part we can even hope to affect is how fast it's changing. Will cutting emissions slow the change? Hell if I know, I don't think anyone can answer that with any certainty. We barely understand the planetary mechanics going on around us. We like to think we do, FFS, we can't even predict the weather a week out. You expect us to predict how emissions are affecting the climate? Wishful thinking, really REALLY wishful arrogant thinking.
Of course, it's utter folly to think we can force a unchanging climate that is perfect for us, all the time, for thousands of years to come. Existence itself is defined by change. The title of a favorite song of mine sticks in my head: The only constant in the universe is change.
As an avid user of encryption without a point (I run a lot of encryption on the net noise just cuz I can), I love it when government get all in a panty-twist about it. Raise the awareness, make more people understand it's usefulness. Get the hell out of my communications.
They use a set of well known frequencies, usually 2.4Ghz WiFi or the old model aircraft band. Now you can "adjust" these if you know what you are doing, but off the shelf, this is what you generally get.
If they operate on the same frequencies as WiFi, seems like it might be a little difficult to discern between a drone's comm WiFi and background WiFi in whatever area they operate. Hell, you could mimic a SSID in the area to further hide behind.
I don't understand why drivers are even needed any more.
For the same reason you still have plenty of humans working to build cars... the auto & rail labor unions are rather strong.
For now. But that won't last, automation is going to take over this stuff, and very soon. Especially when people see it's safer to have computers operating these things than humans. Unions have pull now, but they will lose eventually, they always lose to automation. Always will.
Union is lucky honestly, trains are prime targets for automation. Would seem like it'd have been a lot smarter to just do away with drivers and tele-operate/automate all train engines. The days of having a human on board are very very numbered. I think the cameras is a waste of time and money. Just automate/centralize it already.
Also calling them engineers is stupid. Train operators long ago diverged from what engineers are. They're operators.
On the other hand, humanity going extinct would be exceedingly bad for humanity.
Are you suggesting nature gives a f about us? We will go extinct, and probably by our own doing. Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Personally, I think the whole debate against human activity being 'unnatural' is stupid. We are a product of this planet, what we do is natural, we aren't some extra-terrestrial interfering with our planet, we're natives living here, influencing our world. For better, or for worse. And a lot of in between.
...if humans save these pink iguanas, we are interfering with nature. Can't have it both ways, by saying our actions that make stuff go extinct is bad, and actions by nature that makes stuff go extinct is bad, too.
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Windows 10 logs all keystrokes, and by default sends everything to MS. Allegedly that transfer can be disabled, but not the logging itself. That info was taken from above.
That'd be a neat trick, when you're using full system encryption, it logging keystrokes before the OS even starts (which is where you put in your TrueCrypt passphrase.)
Should be noted, TrueCrypt 7.1a (last full version) works fine with Windows 10 if you're really concerned about someone thieving your data. I highly doubt the OS has your TrueCrypt keys if you use this solution, Microsoft account or not.
If you're confident your system is secure against intrusions and you're monitoring things this closely, a port scan is ... nothing. Who cares? It's intrusions you care about, not probes. Just be sure anything you have open is secured. Monitor attempts to attack anything opened to the world.
I personally don't monitor for port scans, I really don't care. Anything open on my servers is either secured, monitored, or if it's a legacy service I'm unsure about, sandboxed (chrooted, unprivileged, etc) to minimize any intrusion into it from causing any damage to the rest of the system.
4 hard drives. Two operating in RAID1 in a Linux file server (CIFS.) 1 external hard drive which weekly automated backups are sent to. 1 external hard drive which is manually mirrored from the other external once every few months and stored in a safe place.
RAID1 lost a drive a couple months ago, no biggy, just replaced it, didn't lose a thing. The super sensitive irreplaceables (my source code primarily) are kept in a TrueCrypt volume on my AWS server. Just extra insurance against house burning to the ground or something.
I don't really care for all the fancy junk. I just use CIFS behind firewalls/over VPN's to shuffle files around as needed. Keep it simple, stupid!
I think if someone invents such a contraption, they stand to make WAY more than a $250k prize by patenting and manufacturing the thing themselves and selling it to farmers. Really. Who would be stupid enough to give away such an invention for a mere $250k?
You can thank years and years of spammers. The sad part to me isn't really that independent hosts are consider spam by default, its the fact, even that being the case, my independent hosted email accounts are *STILL* getting hundreds of spam mails each day. Very annoying.
The article ask us what we'd like them to do. I'd like them to call me if there's a suspicious charge on my card. Ask me about it, make sure it's ok. If I can't be reached, then sure, reverse the charge and shut off my card, but at least make an attempt to contact and verify rather than just assume!
Linux kernel. Microsoft's GUI and API compatibility. 'nuff said. Linux GUI is still way behind M$.
1. Create stuff no one wants to buy.
2. Upload to TPB.
3. Sue downloaders
4. PROFIT!
This is a Use Tax, which has been ruled legal 100 times before (perhaps hyperbole, perhaps not).
I just had to snicker when you said it was a "Use Tax", a very difficult to collect and enforce kind of tax. I lived in a state with Use Tax once.. never paid it either. Use Taxes are silly, they actually say something like if you buy a tank of gas in another state, you have to pay Use Tax on the gas you have remaining when you re-enter the state with the Use Tax. Insanity tax. Good luck with that, Chicago.
A small essay I wrote a few years ago:
Not a denier, but I think there's a few things to understand. One, look at the history of this world, it's atmosphere has changed composition many many times through its long history, before we were even a dream in our ancestral DNA.
Two, the amount of change occurring seems to me to vastly over stated. There's change. Sure we caused it, we're a part of this planet, our activities affect the planet. Have to a utter moron to deny that.
Three, on a whole, the big picture, civilization on the whole, is not changing, and its not going to change. We're going to keep building factories and cutting down forests. No matter how loudly you people scream, business will go on.
And most important of all! We are humans, the most adaptable creature this planet has produced so far. We will adapt to the changes around us. Also, there's this talk of 'positive feedback', a cycle has been started that feeds back on itself and grows, we have NO CLUE how to stop it, even if we stopped all emissions this very instant, the feedback loop has already begun. We will simply have to adapt now. Good thing we're the most adaptable species on the earth.
The only debatable point in this whole argument is.. how fast? Stuff is changing, the only part we can even hope to affect is how fast it's changing. Will cutting emissions slow the change? Hell if I know, I don't think anyone can answer that with any certainty. We barely understand the planetary mechanics going on around us. We like to think we do, FFS, we can't even predict the weather a week out. You expect us to predict how emissions are affecting the climate? Wishful thinking, really REALLY wishful arrogant thinking.
Of course, it's utter folly to think we can force a unchanging climate that is perfect for us, all the time, for thousands of years to come. Existence itself is defined by change. The title of a favorite song of mine sticks in my head: The only constant in the universe is change.
From articles I've read, a feedback loop in the atlantic ocean is already triggered. Genie is out of the bottle. Adapt or die.
Governments of the world must die!
As an avid user of encryption without a point (I run a lot of encryption on the net noise just cuz I can), I love it when government get all in a panty-twist about it. Raise the awareness, make more people understand it's usefulness. Get the hell out of my communications.
...they just passed the cost of retaining all that metadata to the telcos. I pity the telcos.
PGP was created and promoted 20 frickin' years ago and mainstream websites are just now noticing? LMFAO.
On the subject of jobs being automated, I recommend this video. Amazing stuff. Mechanical minds are pretty serious stuff.
...and Google taketh away. Been here, done this, several times. Not surprising.
They use a set of well known frequencies, usually 2.4Ghz WiFi or the old model aircraft band. Now you can "adjust" these if you know what you are doing, but off the shelf, this is what you generally get.
If they operate on the same frequencies as WiFi, seems like it might be a little difficult to discern between a drone's comm WiFi and background WiFi in whatever area they operate. Hell, you could mimic a SSID in the area to further hide behind.
For the same reason you still have plenty of humans working to build cars... the auto & rail labor unions are rather strong.
For now. But that won't last, automation is going to take over this stuff, and very soon. Especially when people see it's safer to have computers operating these things than humans. Unions have pull now, but they will lose eventually, they always lose to automation. Always will.
Union is lucky honestly, trains are prime targets for automation. Would seem like it'd have been a lot smarter to just do away with drivers and tele-operate/automate all train engines. The days of having a human on board are very very numbered. I think the cameras is a waste of time and money. Just automate/centralize it already.
Also calling them engineers is stupid. Train operators long ago diverged from what engineers are. They're operators.
On the other hand, humanity going extinct would be exceedingly bad for humanity.
Are you suggesting nature gives a f about us? We will go extinct, and probably by our own doing. Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Personally, I think the whole debate against human activity being 'unnatural' is stupid. We are a product of this planet, what we do is natural, we aren't some extra-terrestrial interfering with our planet, we're natives living here, influencing our world. For better, or for worse. And a lot of in between.
The premise is that things going extinct is universally bad.
I don't think you'd be here typing that if the dinosaurs didn't go extinct. Extinction is not bad, nor is it good, it simply is. It is evolution.
David Cameron needs to watch this video.
correction: Btguard
...if humans save these pink iguanas, we are interfering with nature. Can't have it both ways, by saying our actions that make stuff go extinct is bad, and actions by nature that makes stuff go extinct is bad, too.