It's interesting that OpenSSL is the only listed module that has either "Revoked" or "Not Available" status. If it were due to a change in procedures or testing, one would expect it to affect multiple modules.
The one thing you might do is watch the traffic for MAC addresses that contain the manufacturer id for Linksys, NetGear, etc. to find unauthorized WAPs.
Remember Windows 95? If you forgot your password, you could just create a new account and log in anyway. Didn't MS Bob allow you to just change the password if you forgot it? We could blast MS about users with weak passwords, but it would be too easy.
Because they will also lock your account when more than 3 (or 4 or 5) attempts fail in a row. You don't need a super-strong password in that case, since you have no way to crack it offline.
What did I say that was wrong? If I ran across a section of an article labeled Criticism that was just the unsubstantiated musings of a wikipedian, then I would delete it. When I look at the sections on Ann Coulter and Al Franken, two that you mention, then I see a lot of biased selection of facts, but all quotes and comments are footnoted, and I see no obviously untrue statements. What "hallowed" figures cannot have the same treatment done to them?
In one published study of Wikipedia vs. "scholarly" encyclopedias, Wikipedia's accuracy came out fairly well. Of course, once you get away from scientific articles, then accuracy gets harder and more meaningless to measure. An article on the legacy of the Reagan Administration, for example, is likely to change a great deal over the next 50 years. Neither should be considered the source for information, just a place to get an overview.
If what you were writing was "Criticism of majoritarian institutions" then your edits should have been reverted. Wikipedia should be a repository of facts, not your opinions. There are lots of things written in "published books" that aren't true. Several of my contributions to Wikipedia are just to remove editorializing.
The lowest number of writes I see in current specs is 100,000, so even without wear leveling you're never going to mess up a USB key that you are copying files to manually. Your fingers will wear out before the device will.
If the device is mounted in sync mode, then every cluster write causes a FAT update, which drastically increases the number of writes. This was a problem several years ago when FAT was first implemented in Linux. Since FAT is also used for floppies, the default for mounting FAT filesystems is async mode - only write when needed.
If you want proof that its not a problem, just look at the warrranty. Sandisk isn't going to give you a 3-year warranty if they thought that normal use would kill the part.
You are correct. I misunderstood the "a Miami judge" part. In that case I wonder what the "strong and sufficient" evidence is. The press reports certainly sound fairly weak.
What wearout? Imagine that you start doing writes continuously spread over a 40GB flash drive for 5-years (typical high-end HD warranty period). How many times will you write to any given sector assume that you have a good load leveling algorithm?
Assume 15 MB/s write. 40 GB will take about 45 mins. So in 5 years, you will only write each block 175,200 times which is within the 1,000,000 writes spec for flash. And this assumes that you do no reads at all.
Wearout is a myth with modern flash filesystem software.
"Government officials described them after their arrest as "home-grown terrorists" but said they posed no real threat because they had no actual al-Qaeda contacts, no weapons and no means of carrying out the attacks."
As for what was going on, Florida judges are elected to 6-year terms. A life-tenure judge doesn't have to worry about popular opinion when making decisions.
Right. Cops and FBI should investigate crimes after they have been committed, or when they have evidence a crime is going to be committed. Asking them to prevent terrorist acts in advance is equivalent to asking for a police state. I personally feel that there should have been no blame cast on the intelligence community for 9/11. I certainly do not feel any safer since the creation of DHS. Another layer of bureaucracy is not going to make information flow better. The opposite, if anything.
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It's interesting that OpenSSL is the only listed module that has either "Revoked" or "Not Available" status. If it were due to a change in procedures or testing, one would expect it to affect multiple modules.
Yes. Google is good for viruses. I guess it works both ways.
I did, actually. And I compared read some of the articles that it talked about.
I see your small hole and raise you vibration sensors which will lock out the port when tripped.
OK, escalation, is it? Now I'm replacing all of my ethernet connections with armored cable epoxyed into the wall and the NIC.
The one thing you might do is watch the traffic for MAC addresses that contain the manufacturer id for Linksys, NetGear, etc. to find unauthorized WAPs.
Remember Windows 95? If you forgot your password, you could just create a new account and log in anyway. Didn't MS Bob allow you to just change the password if you forgot it? We could blast MS about users with weak passwords, but it would be too easy.
Because they will also lock your account when more than 3 (or 4 or 5) attempts fail in a row. You don't need a super-strong password in that case, since you have no way to crack it offline.
What did I say that was wrong? If I ran across a section of an article labeled Criticism that was just the unsubstantiated musings of a wikipedian, then I would delete it. When I look at the sections on Ann Coulter and Al Franken, two that you mention, then I see a lot of biased selection of facts, but all quotes and comments are footnoted, and I see no obviously untrue statements. What "hallowed" figures cannot have the same treatment done to them?
"Wikipedia is wrong MORE than it's right."
Please cite an example article in Wikipedia and a reliable source showing that it is wrong.
In one published study of Wikipedia vs. "scholarly" encyclopedias, Wikipedia's accuracy came out fairly well. Of course, once you get away from scientific articles, then accuracy gets harder and more meaningless to measure. An article on the legacy of the Reagan Administration, for example, is likely to change a great deal over the next 50 years. Neither should be considered the source for information, just a place to get an overview.
If what you were writing was "Criticism of majoritarian institutions" then your edits should have been reverted. Wikipedia should be a repository of facts, not your opinions. There are lots of things written in "published books" that aren't true. Several of my contributions to Wikipedia are just to remove editorializing.
And yet, when I put "swiss banks" into google, it displays paid ads.
I predict that we start seeing ads for foreign banks popping up in places like Sports Illustrated.
The lowest number of writes I see in current specs is 100,000, so even without wear leveling you're never going to mess up a USB key that you are copying files to manually. Your fingers will wear out before the device will.
If the device is mounted in sync mode, then every cluster write causes a FAT update, which drastically increases the number of writes. This was a problem several years ago when FAT was first implemented in Linux. Since FAT is also used for floppies, the default for mounting FAT filesystems is async mode - only write when needed.
If you want proof that its not a problem, just look at the warrranty. Sandisk isn't going to give you a 3-year warranty if they thought that normal use would kill the part.
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You are correct. I misunderstood the "a Miami judge" part. In that case I wonder what the "strong and sufficient" evidence is. The press reports certainly sound fairly weak.
What wearout? Imagine that you start doing writes continuously spread over a 40GB flash drive for 5-years (typical high-end HD warranty period). How many times will you write to any given sector assume that you have a good load leveling algorithm?
Assume 15 MB/s write. 40 GB will take about 45 mins. So in 5 years, you will only write each block 175,200 times which is within the 1,000,000 writes spec for flash. And this assumes that you do no reads at all.
Wearout is a myth with modern flash filesystem software.
Its one thing to supply facts, but this service is editorializing DNS. I think they are leaving themselves open to attack based on their choices.
From the same article:
"Government officials described them after their arrest as "home-grown terrorists" but said they posed no real threat because they had no actual al-Qaeda contacts, no weapons and no means of carrying out the attacks."
As for what was going on, Florida judges are elected to 6-year terms. A life-tenure judge doesn't have to worry about popular opinion when making decisions.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Do you realize how many generalizations you are making in this and your earlier post?
Females v. males
Straights v. gays
New Yorkers v. normal people (joke!)
Would you also assume a difference in terrorist threat between someone named Mohammed and someone named Brittany?
So what prevents heterosexual couples from doing that? Or doesn't that bother you for some reason?
Right. Cops and FBI should investigate crimes after they have been committed, or when they have evidence a crime is going to be committed. Asking them to prevent terrorist acts in advance is equivalent to asking for a police state. I personally feel that there should have been no blame cast on the intelligence community for 9/11. I certainly do not feel any safer since the creation of DHS. Another layer of bureaucracy is not going to make information flow better. The opposite, if anything.