They shouldn't be helping to uninstall it for people. They should be getting their internet connections shut off to teach them a damn lesson about computer security.
Do you have any links about this? Everything I've read about has said this all works and is legal. I haven't seen anything to the contrary. I'm not doubting you, I just want to learn more about it.
CableLABs, the guys that control cable card, refuse to allow pci/pci express cards to be sold to the public that accept cable cards. There is 1 model made by ati, but officially you can only buy it in a premade htpc from someone like Dell. The card even scans the dmi info of the bios to make sure it is an authorized system.
Also, the card only has Windows drivers.
If you don't know enough to be administering it yourself, what good is watching the person going to do?
I wonder this every time I'm forced to go on site for something instead of doing it remotely. If the person on the other end knew what they were doing, they wouldn't need me in the first place. And since they don't know what they're doing, watching me isn't going to help anything. If I really was a sneaky devious person, I could easily load a backdoor, etc WITH you watching without you even knowing and then do whatever I wanted later. If you're letting a person work on your computer, you need to trust them in the first place.
Buttressed by the fact that the email I sent only to two professors has been distributed without my knowledge or consent, why would we allow analysis of our machines by unlicensed parties? We are not afraid of the results. In fact, as mentioned to you earlier, the report from the code review that is in progress goes to the State simultaneous to release to Sequoia.
Ed Smith VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification Sequoia Voting Systems
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-----Original Message----- From: Name Withheld for Slashdot Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:55 PM To: Smith, Ed Subject: Re: why are you refusing an independent analysis
Just because you are not aware of Felton's test plan does not mean he does not have one. If there is nothing wrong for him to find, why is there a problem with him analyzing it? You keep ignoring this question.
Name Withheld for Slashdot On Wednesday 19 March 2008, you wrote: > The lack of a published Test Plan, stated objectives for the study, > voting machines for study that have been secured since Election Day > and other facts in evidence do not support your contention that this > is a structured review. > > Ed Smith > VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification > Sequoia Voting Systems > > Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including all the > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > contains confidential information. Unauthorized use or disclosure is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, > disclose, copy or disseminate this information. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply > email and destroy all copies of the original message, including attachments. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Name Withheld for Slashdot > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:07 PM > To: Smith, Ed > Subject: Re: why are you refusing an independent analysis > > Mr Smith: > > This is not an "ad hoc" review. Felton is an expert in the field. > Are you afraid he will turn up problems with your machines like he has
> with others in the past? > > Name Withheld for Slashdot > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008, you wrote: > > Name Withheld for Slashdot: > > > > We are acting against only these ad hoc reviews. There is an > > independent source code and functional review in progress at this > > time, with results going to the NJ Attorney General's office. We > > support reviews that protect both our intellectual property rights > > and > > > > have donated staff hours and resources to the on-going review > > mentioned above. > > > > Best Regards, > > Ed Smith > > VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification Sequoia Voting Systems > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including all the > > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > > contains confidential information. Unauthorized use or disclosure is > > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, > > disclose, copy or disseminate this information. If you are not the > > intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply >
Where did you hear that one? As far as I know, my cousin coined that one, and it has spread like wild fire from him. I know dozens of people that now say it, having learned it from him.
He works as a flat rate auto mechanic, so anyone that's familiar with that line of work knows that BOHICA is a very appropriate term for them to use!
On a side note, they could work out those small bugs first, now couldn't they? Like, clicking on a thumbnai and then finding out it's been removed? Well then why include that result in the search anyway?
I've thought about that issue too. In a way, it's good that they show the results in the search, and then show that the clip has been removed because of a media company's copyright claim. It makes regular Joes aware of an issue they might otherwise never have heard about.
The hardest part of this is actually the radiator to get rid of the waste heat.
Why think of it as waste heat at all? Why not generate even more power from it? There are electricity generation methods that work off of a temperature
differential.
One could have just as easily turned the auto sleep off under windows and gotten the same result. I've set a few friend's Windows laptops that way because they hated it sleeping every time they were downloading something and closed the lid!
A laptop should still cool properly with the lid closed.
Yes, software RAID is great, especially if you like your writes being really slow.:-/
If you're going to dump hundreds of $$ into hard drives, cough up a bit more for a HW raid controller!
Says the person who's never done any real benchmarking of these things...
Unless you buy the right raid card, you'll likely get worse performance from it than you would from software raid. I'm talking the name brands too - LSI, Adaptec, 3Ware. They all suck. Of the 3, 3ware is the best. On a LSI SAS raid controller I recently tested, I only got a 30% I/O speedup going from a single drive to a 6 drive raid 5. That's pathetic! Software raid at least gave me 140% improvement.
If you really want good numbers, get an Areca controller. They perform very well and have drivers right in the linux kernel (2.6.19+).
The older RocketRaid cards (Highpoint) performed fairly well, but were not really hardware raid - they were "hardware assisted" raid. Most of the work was really software raid in the driver. As long as you had a fairly fast cpu, you got great numbers. I believe the newer ones are true hardware raid now, but I haven't benchmarked them yet as they only had up to 8 port controllers in PCIe last I checked.
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Add an outlet to it, and you'll be able to charge your ipod and lose a pound at the same time!
"There's a family of racoons living in my chimney."
I think "light the fireplace" is the correct solution to this one.
They shouldn't be helping to uninstall it for people. They should be getting their internet connections shut off to teach them a damn lesson about computer security.
If it's wide open, it's still probably admin/admin. Log in and blacklist your kid's macs ;)
Why was she even looking in his windows to begin with?
Do you have any links about this? Everything I've read about has said this all works and is legal. I haven't seen anything to the contrary. I'm not doubting you, I just want to learn more about it.
Yes. You put the smart card that would normally go in the set top box into the pci express card instead.
CableLABs, the guys that control cable card, refuse to allow pci/pci express cards to be sold to the public that accept cable cards. There is 1 model made by ati, but officially you can only buy it in a premade htpc from someone like Dell. The card even scans the dmi info of the bios to make sure it is an authorized system.
Also, the card only has Windows drivers.
DVB-S cards can use smart cards to get premium (encrypted) channels as long as you have a subscription. They don't lock you out like cable does.
If you don't know enough to be administering it yourself, what good is watching the person going to do?
I wonder this every time I'm forced to go on site for something instead of doing it remotely. If the person on the other end knew what they were doing, they wouldn't need me in the first place. And since they don't know what they're doing, watching me isn't going to help anything. If I really was a sneaky devious person, I could easily load a backdoor, etc WITH you watching without you even knowing and then do whatever I wanted later. If you're letting a person work on your computer, you need to trust them in the first place.
Like the back of a Volkswagen?
No it doesn't. It means stop if it is safe to stop. It doesn't mean slam on your breaks and cause a 3 car pileup.
Let him know how you feel too! "Smith, Ed"
Here is my email thread with him-
Buttressed by the fact that the email I sent only to two professors has been distributed without my knowledge or consent, why would we allow analysis of our machines by unlicensed parties? We are not afraid of the results. In fact, as mentioned to you earlier, the report from the code review that is in progress goes to the State simultaneous to release to Sequoia.
Ed Smith
VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification
Sequoia Voting Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Name Withheld for Slashdot
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:55 PM
To: Smith, Ed
Subject: Re: why are you refusing an independent analysis
Just because you are not aware of Felton's test plan does not mean he does not have one. If there is nothing wrong for him to find, why is there a problem with him analyzing it? You keep ignoring this question.
Name Withheld for Slashdot
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, you wrote:
> The lack of a published Test Plan, stated objectives for the study,
> voting machines for study that have been secured since Election Day
> and other facts in evidence do not support your contention that this
> is a structured review.
>
> Ed Smith
> VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification
> Sequoia Voting Systems
>
> Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including all the
> attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and
> contains confidential information. Unauthorized use or disclosure is
> prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use,
> disclose, copy or disseminate this information. If you are not the
> intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply
> email and destroy all copies of the original message, including
attachments.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Name Withheld for Slashdot
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: Smith, Ed
> Subject: Re: why are you refusing an independent analysis
>
> Mr Smith:
>
> This is not an "ad hoc" review. Felton is an expert in the field.
> Are you afraid he will turn up problems with your machines like he has
> with others in the past?
>
> Name Withheld for Slashdot
>
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008, you wrote:
> > Name Withheld for Slashdot:
> >
> > We are acting against only these ad hoc reviews. There is an
> > independent source code and functional review in progress at this
> > time, with results going to the NJ Attorney General's office. We
> > support reviews that protect both our intellectual property rights
> > and
> >
> > have donated staff hours and resources to the on-going review
> > mentioned above.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ed Smith
> > VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification Sequoia Voting Systems
> >
> > Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including all the
> > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and
> > contains confidential information. Unauthorized use or disclosure is
> > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use,
> > disclose, copy or disseminate this information. If you are not the
> > intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply
>
I want to know a percentage of people that fell for it!
When a jackpot is over 150 million, having to split it still leaves you with at least several million, even assuming it being split many ways.
Where did you hear that one? As far as I know, my cousin coined that one, and it has spread like wild fire from him. I know dozens of people that now say it, having learned it from him.
He works as a flat rate auto mechanic, so anyone that's familiar with that line of work knows that BOHICA is a very appropriate term for them to use!
On a side note, they could work out those small bugs first, now couldn't they? Like, clicking on a thumbnai and then finding out it's been removed? Well then why include that result in the search anyway?
I've thought about that issue too. In a way, it's good that they show the results in the search, and then show that the clip has been removed because of a media company's copyright claim. It makes regular Joes aware of an issue they might otherwise never have heard about.
The hardest part of this is actually the radiator to get rid of the waste heat.
Why think of it as waste heat at all? Why not generate even more power from it? There are electricity generation methods that work off of a temperature differential.
Think of a peltier cooler working in reverse.
I just hope they don't put Stallman on the stand!
One could have just as easily turned the auto sleep off under windows and gotten the same result. I've set a few friend's Windows laptops that way because they hated it sleeping every time they were downloading something and closed the lid!
A laptop should still cool properly with the lid closed.
I am serious! ... ... And don't call me Shirley!
Sue them for the money they have made off your copyrighted work. Should be a slam dunk in court.
And whether or not the resulting data is stored on a RAID array.
His stuff is terrible! Check out that link just to see how bad it is!
Yes, software RAID is great, especially if you like your writes being really slow. :-/
If you're going to dump hundreds of $$ into hard drives, cough up a bit more for a HW raid controller!
Says the person who's never done any real benchmarking of these things...
Unless you buy the right raid card, you'll likely get worse performance from it than you would from software raid. I'm talking the name brands too - LSI, Adaptec, 3Ware. They all suck. Of the 3, 3ware is the best. On a LSI SAS raid controller I recently tested, I only got a 30% I/O speedup going from a single drive to a 6 drive raid 5. That's pathetic! Software raid at least gave me 140% improvement.
If you really want good numbers, get an Areca controller. They perform very well and have drivers right in the linux kernel (2.6.19+).
The older RocketRaid cards (Highpoint) performed fairly well, but were not really hardware raid - they were "hardware assisted" raid. Most of the work was really software raid in the driver. As long as you had a fairly fast cpu, you got great numbers. I believe the newer ones are true hardware raid now, but I haven't benchmarked them yet as they only had up to 8 port controllers in PCIe last I checked.