The only excuses for guns are the hobbies of hunting and target shooting. It's not worth it.
So self defense of life/property or rebelling against a government, if it tries to ignore the majority will of the people, are not legitimate uses of guns? Someone should have told our nation's founding fathers that before they started the revolutionary war. So many lives could have been spared...
I wish I had mod points for you. We have lived mostly peaceful lives here in the US up until the last 3 decades, during which we have molded our society into a culture of greed, selfishness and rampant hate.
I agree about your point regarding the UAC on Vista and Win7. I disagree about the ribbon in office. If the ribbon really was such a great idea wouldn't other developers have started to adopt it? Microsoft made the APIs available. There are dev kits are out there... but here we are 5 years later with no one else using them.
I love that people on here bitch endlessly about how insecure OSes are. Then Apple makes a move to require devs to code in a more secure manner, result? They freak out. Did I miss anything?
I'm a big enough man to admit when I misread something. I was tired and getting ready to head out the door at work so I didn't read it as thoroughly as I should have. I've since arrived home and taken a nap so I see what you're saying now.
You're correct it is one more thing to worry about adding to the SOP for setting up a machine but it seems like a minor thing to me. I've seen Lenovo and Dell ship computers with PXE boot off and power management options turned off so going in to deal with something in the BIOS isn't that strange to me. In case you're wondering about what kind of scale I was dealing with, it was roughly 300 deployments a year per tech.
Either way all the major suppliers are going that direction so you'll have to face down the UEFI bios setting sooner or later. So in this case sticking your head in the sand and sending the PCs back without figuring out why it wasn't working wouldn't have done you much good, which I think was the kids point. Also I haven't seen a BIOS reset on it's own since the 90s so I wouldn't worry too much about the help desk having to walk someone through reconfiguring it over the phone.
It's not as simple as that. If you've a shop with thousands of workstations deployed and you add another point of failure (simple bios setting in the TFA's example) on PCs that may be deployed for years, you've got yet ANOTHER thing that can go wrong if the bios settings get lost. I'd like to see $help_desk walk someone through changing the bios settings. That machine is going to need a visit from a $pendy tech. And, oh yeah -- update the SOP for new PC deployment and make sure everyone signs off and follows it.
In a SMALL shop, this isn't really a problem. It's not unlikely that there's as many different hardware flavors as there are total PCs. But in a LARGE shop, PC UNIFORMITY saves time and money.
It's enough to justify the groans from his co-workers...
Me thinks you don't understand mass deployments. The help desk would never have to walk someone though modifying the BIOS because the computer would never be deployed if it wasn't changed before hand. I've had to work in many multi-thousand PC shops and we had to modify some of the BIOS settings on computers as we deployed them using a standardized image. We just made sure to make the changes as we unboxed and prepped them. If you're deploy techs aren't thorough enough to check that the PC boot BEFORE they deploy it then you have bigger problems that making changes to the BIOS.
I'm curious, what are the penalties for the second violation and third violation of killing someone on the list? Are they as sever as the Do Not Call list penalties?
The guys in marketing usually have more sway with management, than the technical group, because they are better communicators/manipulators. If the technical teams understood as much about how the average business leader thinks and communicates, as the marketing team does, then they wouldn't loose quite as much.
They can dial back on their use of lights at night now. At least the should be able to around the Fukushima reactors. Everything there has been irradiated enough to glow like a bright night light, right?
Hmm, I have an idea. A truly smart thermostat would lie. It would indicate it's set at some crazy temperature, but in reality it would apply a moderate setting. Or better yet, it would lie to everyone but me.
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Excellent. Now all we need is a way to tell the two guys apart before the shooting starts.
It's actually not as hard as you would think. From cover: Look for the guy that is firing indiscriminately at anything that moves, shoot him.
The only excuses for guns are the hobbies of hunting and target shooting. It's not worth it.
So self defense of life/property or rebelling against a government, if it tries to ignore the majority will of the people, are not legitimate uses of guns? Someone should have told our nation's founding fathers that before they started the revolutionary war. So many lives could have been spared...
I wish I had mod points for you. We have lived mostly peaceful lives here in the US up until the last 3 decades, during which we have molded our society into a culture of greed, selfishness and rampant hate.
Thank you! You're response is by far the best. I wish I could mod you up.
I have a question. Does the exploit work on Win 7 machines or just Win XP?
Yes I RTFAed. It doesn't really spell out what combo of IE and Windows are vulnerable.
And this...
With a cost of 140 million dollars USD.
...is a sentence fragment.
It's all just one big.
That's how I talk you insensitive.
I agree about your point regarding the UAC on Vista and Win7. I disagree about the ribbon in office. If the ribbon really was such a great idea wouldn't other developers have started to adopt it? Microsoft made the APIs available. There are dev kits are out there... but here we are 5 years later with no one else using them.
I love that people on here bitch endlessly about how insecure OSes are. Then Apple makes a move to require devs to code in a more secure manner, result? They freak out. Did I miss anything?
I'm a big enough man to admit when I misread something. I was tired and getting ready to head out the door at work so I didn't read it as thoroughly as I should have. I've since arrived home and taken a nap so I see what you're saying now.
You're correct it is one more thing to worry about adding to the SOP for setting up a machine but it seems like a minor thing to me. I've seen Lenovo and Dell ship computers with PXE boot off and power management options turned off so going in to deal with something in the BIOS isn't that strange to me. In case you're wondering about what kind of scale I was dealing with, it was roughly 300 deployments a year per tech.
Either way all the major suppliers are going that direction so you'll have to face down the UEFI bios setting sooner or later. So in this case sticking your head in the sand and sending the PCs back without figuring out why it wasn't working wouldn't have done you much good, which I think was the kids point. Also I haven't seen a BIOS reset on it's own since the 90s so I wouldn't worry too much about the help desk having to walk someone through reconfiguring it over the phone.
Sorry for the hasty comment earlier.
I haven't had that happen since the 90s. Have you had it happen recently?
It's not as simple as that. If you've a shop with thousands of workstations deployed and you add another point of failure (simple bios setting in the TFA's example) on PCs that may be deployed for years, you've got yet ANOTHER thing that can go wrong if the bios settings get lost. I'd like to see $help_desk walk someone through changing the bios settings. That machine is going to need a visit from a $pendy tech. And, oh yeah -- update the SOP for new PC deployment and make sure everyone signs off and follows it.
In a SMALL shop, this isn't really a problem. It's not unlikely that there's as many different hardware flavors as there are total PCs. But in a LARGE shop, PC UNIFORMITY saves time and money.
It's enough to justify the groans from his co-workers...
Me thinks you don't understand mass deployments. The help desk would never have to walk someone though modifying the BIOS because the computer would never be deployed if it wasn't changed before hand. I've had to work in many multi-thousand PC shops and we had to modify some of the BIOS settings on computers as we deployed them using a standardized image. We just made sure to make the changes as we unboxed and prepped them. If you're deploy techs aren't thorough enough to check that the PC boot BEFORE they deploy it then you have bigger problems that making changes to the BIOS.
You have Notes & Domino? You poor bastard.
Because the Do Not Call list worked out so well
I'm curious, what are the penalties for the second violation and third violation of killing someone on the list? Are they as sever as the Do Not Call list penalties?
You don't think "defense contractors" means they only defend, do you?
The best defense is a good offense.
The guys in marketing usually have more sway with management, than the technical group, because they are better communicators/manipulators. If the technical teams understood as much about how the average business leader thinks and communicates, as the marketing team does, then they wouldn't loose quite as much.
They can dial back on their use of lights at night now. At least the should be able to around the Fukushima reactors. Everything there has been irradiated enough to glow like a bright night light, right?
Sure, but if I'm going in the same direction for many miles I don't need a map anyway.
I like having the map on long drives zoomed out so I can see how much progress I've made and how far to the next town or city.
Glad I'm not one of Dr. David Shechner's peers, then. Although from the sound of things he must not have many left!
At least not any smart ones!
That might be the most frugal thing a federal agency has ever done.
"Security" = trying hard to make sure consumers can't jailbreak their own devices.
Anyone who is surprised by this has obviously forgotten the whole root kit episode. Sony, I buy as few of your products as I can now.
WHITE TRASH (is this a problem over there??)
It probably is. I imagine it would be used to describe idiot Americans. Think of all the tech support calls they get.
Hmm, I have an idea. A truly smart thermostat would lie. It would indicate it's set at some crazy temperature, but in reality it would apply a moderate setting. Or better yet, it would lie to everyone but me.
You work for the CIA, don't you?
We all know Apple's position on people who hold it wrong...
Maybe the hook acts as an antenna?
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches. RIP Steve.
with rounded corners
Just watch, the pall-bearers will complain about the lack of handles.
:-(
But in all seriousness RIP Steve. You will be missed.
He probably drank too much Jameson and sat too close to the fireplace.