pretending to be a long-time slashdotter. sorry, buddy, ain't buying it. this is wrong place to get good press. oh, wait, FBI burnt bridge with mainstream media by pretending to be one of them and ruining their credibility.
I don't vote for the person I believe has the best chance of winning; I vote for the person I believe would do the best job for the office they seek.
The only votes that are wasted are cast by those who compromise their principles or sell out their beliefs because they don't believe their candidate has a snowball's chance in Hell of winning.
I am a Republican and I voted for Ron Paul in New York's primary today, even though I know that: a) all electoral college delegates will go the Democratic nominee because the ratio of Dems to Reps in the state is on the order of 8:5 and this is a winner-take-all state. b) Ron Paul has two chances of winning the Rebpublican nomination from this state: slim and none.
But, I will have voted for the person I think will best serve the nation's interests, so MY vote was not wasted.
1. Our tastes/needs change with time. While you're shopping for a new car, car ads may be interesting to you but after you but it, do you want to see another loud, screaming guy yelling he has the most cars at the lowest price? But, if you say, "not interested," at that point, you won't be targeted for new car ads again, even though you'll likely return to the car market in 2-4 years. You'll want to see the ads then, maybe, but... too late.
2. Commercials are often the funniest, most original content on TV these days. When they are new, they are worth watching, regardless of whether you ever plan to buy that product. The real problem IMHO is the darn things just get overplayed until we can't stand to see them again. And there's no sense expecting companies to limit runs of their ads since they cost so much to produce they must need them to show a lot to amortize their production cost.
This new law gives cops a legally defensible pretext to sieze videos of them beating or killing innocent civilians. the next time four cops shoot 41 bullets at a black man pulling out his wallet, will anyone be able to prosecute them with a video showing them planting a gun near the body of their defenseless victim? Can't you just hear the DA asking the person who caught the cops' murderous acts on film, "Did you apply for and receive a permit before filming?" Then turning to the judge and demanding the video be suprresed because it was filmed without a permit.
The 1st Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech." Courts have sided with internet sites that claimed 1st Amendment protection applied to them since they served as a news outlet. Bush helped the cause by granting white house press credentials to the gay covert republican blogger a few years ago. So, even if they pass the law, I would expect a court of appropriate jurisdiction to invalidate it. Of course, I must add the usual caveat...IANAL.
If you leave your house and hop on the highway for your hour-long commute to work and your avg speed is recorded at 70 mph, it would be difficult for you to prove you didn't speed all the way, esp. if the speed limit in your state is 55 or 65.
The ironic thing is that their actions show they are afraid of what's posted on the pages, so when people gain access to the content through other media they are much more likely to believe any claims or statements made on the site.
you're expecting art,music, and philosophy majors to be as computer literate as you. what about new viruses that infect machines before security vendors create av defs to combat them? or before the monthly MS patch release? so, even users w/current av and win updates can have their machines infected. more importantly, many attacks are designed to provide back door access and once the trojan does its dirty work, simply removing the malicous file isn't going to improve traffic flow across your network. for instance, a virus infects your computer before norton creates definitions for it. an irc bot gets installed on your computer and your i.p. is now a hot target for d/l movies, dvds, credit card #'s, etc. a few days later, norton releases new defs for that virus. ok, even if your av quarantines or deletes the infected file, you have to know how to search for irc bots or keyloggers. av doesn't touch irc clients, http, or ftp and those ports are generally open even on firewalled machines. so, you're still going to have tons of traffic to the "now cleaned" machine. the kid's machine got infected. you booted him. he "cleaned" the computer. once you verify that av and win updates are current, you restore access. how have you reduced your flows? you haven't. and there's no way you're ever going to teach kids who just want to d/l music and porn, play games, surf the web, and leave witty away msgs for their friends to be amazed at how to do all that. there are answers, many of them complicated, but yours, my friend, is no solution. so, don't be so hard on the guy. he's asking for help not sarcasm. ok?
you said: "Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted."
I'm willing to bet that the portion of your salary that covers the time spent wiping drives is more than the $12,000 cost of replacing them. So -- if you're truly serious about maximizing revenue, then recommend the company fire you and use the cost savings to treat more indigent people.
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pretending to be a long-time slashdotter. sorry, buddy, ain't buying it. this is wrong place to get good press. oh, wait, FBI burnt bridge with mainstream media by pretending to be one of them and ruining their credibility.
If he is using Win95, M$ stopped supporting that years ago; I'm pretty sure there are no Windows updates for that OS on their site anymore.
Bet you if he got his ass nuked, he'd never steal from anyone ever again.
I don't vote for the person I believe has the best chance of winning; I vote for the person I believe would do the best job for the office they seek.
The only votes that are wasted are cast by those who compromise their principles or sell out their beliefs because they don't believe their candidate has a snowball's chance in Hell of winning.
I am a Republican and I voted for Ron Paul in New York's primary today, even though I know that:
a) all electoral college delegates will go the Democratic nominee because the ratio of Dems to Reps in the state is on the order of 8:5 and this is a winner-take-all state.
b) Ron Paul has two chances of winning the Rebpublican nomination from this state: slim and none.
But, I will have voted for the person I think will best serve the nation's interests, so MY vote was not wasted.
huh?
1. Our tastes/needs change with time. While you're shopping for a new car, car ads may be interesting to you but after you but it, do you want to see another loud, screaming guy yelling he has the most cars at the lowest price? But, if you say, "not interested," at that point, you won't be targeted for new car ads again, even though you'll likely return to the car market in 2-4 years. You'll want to see the ads then, maybe, but ... too late.
2. Commercials are often the funniest, most original content on TV these days. When they are new, they are worth watching, regardless of whether you ever plan to buy that product. The real problem IMHO is the darn things just get overplayed until we can't stand to see them again. And there's no sense expecting companies to limit runs of their ads since they cost so much to produce they must need them to show a lot to amortize their production cost.
you tell me!
cake layers + legal filings = layers of torts for courts, of course
This new law gives cops a legally defensible pretext to sieze videos of them beating or killing innocent civilians. the next time four cops shoot 41 bullets at a black man pulling out his wallet, will anyone be able to prosecute them with a video showing them planting a gun near the body of their defenseless victim? Can't you just hear the DA asking the person who caught the cops' murderous acts on film, "Did you apply for and receive a permit before filming?" Then turning to the judge and demanding the video be suprresed because it was filmed without a permit.
The 1st Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."
Courts have sided with internet sites that claimed 1st Amendment protection applied to them since they served as a news outlet.
Bush helped the cause by granting white house press credentials to the gay covert republican blogger a few years ago.
So, even if they pass the law, I would expect a court of appropriate jurisdiction to invalidate it.
Of course, I must add the usual caveat...IANAL.
perhaps you knew that?
what better cover for launching a spy satellite than a "failed weather observation platform?" wonder who paid for the new eye in the sky.
If you leave your house and hop on the highway for your hour-long commute to work and your avg speed is recorded at 70 mph, it would be difficult for you to prove you didn't speed all the way, esp. if the speed limit in your state is 55 or 65.
like an endif, maybe?
hope you don't forget to drop anchor before you go to sleep aboard his old yacht, matey.
but HELL NO!
The ironic thing is that their actions show they are afraid of what's posted on the pages, so when people gain access to the content through other media they are much more likely to believe any claims or statements made on the site.
Stupid move on phone company/isp part
you're expecting art,music, and philosophy majors to be as computer literate as you.
what about new viruses that infect machines before security vendors create av defs to combat them? or before the monthly MS patch release?
so, even users w/current av and win updates can have their machines infected.
more importantly, many attacks are designed to provide back door access and once the trojan does its dirty work, simply removing the malicous file isn't going to improve traffic flow across your network.
for instance, a virus infects your computer before norton creates definitions for it. an irc bot gets installed on your computer and your i.p. is now a hot target for d/l movies, dvds, credit card #'s, etc.
a few days later, norton releases new defs for that virus. ok, even if your av quarantines or deletes the infected file, you have to know how to search for irc bots or keyloggers.
av doesn't touch irc clients, http, or ftp and those ports are generally open even on firewalled machines.
so, you're still going to have tons of traffic to the "now cleaned" machine.
the kid's machine got infected. you booted him. he "cleaned" the computer. once you verify that av and win updates are current, you restore access.
how have you reduced your flows? you haven't. and there's no way you're ever going to teach kids who just want to d/l music and porn, play games, surf the web, and leave witty away msgs for their friends to be amazed at how to do all that.
there are answers, many of them complicated, but yours, my friend, is no solution.
so, don't be so hard on the guy. he's asking for help not sarcasm. ok?
what happens if you lose your palm pilot, or -- worse -- someone steals it? haven't you just handed them the keys to the vault?
you said: "Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted."
I'm willing to bet that the portion of your salary that covers the time spent wiping drives is more than the $12,000 cost of replacing them. So -- if you're truly serious about maximizing revenue, then recommend the company fire you and use the cost savings to treat more indigent people.