Now if I need to break into someplace that use iris biometrics I can just get that from a photo off of Myspace! ...and grow a working eye in a test tube.;-)
Paradoxically, your cell phone, email, and Facebook networks are making it more attractive to meet people in the flesh."
Reminds me of chapter one of myspace the movie Warning!! video link
Dude she's got "the angles" - the myspace angles, a shot of her but, legs, lips but no full body shot... all the ugys girls have those shots.
I won't argue that the rule is dumb just that it is possible to use them to make an explosive. You and I both know that a quick trip to the supermarket you could purchase all the chemicals you need to make an explosive device. The truth is that unless you completely restrain everyone or sedate them there is alway going to be a risk that someone will sneak something on a plane and use it to hijack the plane.
In all fairness lithium is a highly reactive substance. You could conceivably take a number of batteries on a flight head back to the restroom crack them open and construct and incendiary device. Check out this link for a little more info The Preparatory Manual of Black Powder and Pyrotechnics
Granted the laptop batteries aren't lithium nitride but they are close.
The most obvious difference between green and red laser pointers is beam visibility. The human eye is most sensitive to light with a wavelength of approximately 555nm (yellow/green) which makes green lasers much more visible than red lasers. Green laser can appear to be roughly 50 times brighter than red lasers.
What have we seen recently?
The people behind the Phantom actually releasing a product
A Duke Nukem Forever teaser
Dell promoting Linux
IE8 passing Acid2
What's next?
Dogs living with cats?? I vote for Gates and Torvalds becoming roommates. Talk about reality TV for geeks.
Have you ever tired to teach a lot of non-technical people to follow security procedures? I work for a CPA firm that takes security pretty seriously. All of our hard drives encrypted. We have a secure webportal to transfer files instead of sending them via e-mail. We have encrypted usb thumb drives.
We have tried to train our employee's to use these tools so as to be secure but I still catch people sending things via e-mail and using unencrypted USB drives that they bought. It's not a huge percentage of people but it still happens and all it takes is one person not following the rules.
The point I'm trying to drive home is that at best you can only hope to mitigate your exposure to data theft. Encrypting your disks is a step in the right direction. As for your assertions that they use unencrypted USB drives and unencrypted e-mail well please sight a source that tells us for sure that they are unencrypted. Otherwise you're just making assumptions and we all know what happens when you do that...
"Border security" is about keeping poor Spanish-speaking Mexicans out of the white communities. You can try to reason and rationalize it until you're blue in the face, but this is the impetus behind the immigration and "border security" debates going on right now. Terrorism is merely a convenient PR excuse.
If you think this post is a troll, guess again. Try going and talking to the people who feel most strongly about border security, and probe deeply about the reasons for it. They pretty quickly forget about the idea of terrorism, and start talking about jobs, communities, culture, language differences, and so forth. (This is why there is no fence on the North side, and no serious discussion of building one.)
If you lived in Canada would you want to come to the US? I'm surprised Canada hasn't built a fence.
... your local monopoly telco. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon, AA&T and their ilk paid for this study so they could go cry to congress about needing more subsidies so the internet doesn't "brownout".
The subject turns out to have Tourettes syndrome?
OI! [redacted] will you [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] make me a [redacted][redacted][redacted] cup of [redacted] coffee?
Brain obscenity filters for teh wins....
You're right, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to hook it up to army drill sargeants or sailors either. It would be fun to hook up to the pointy haired boss... just to see if anything comes out.;-)
Wow, that would be too bulky, not to mention heavy, to do with current technology. It may be possible to do in the future but as it stands now the technology doesn't exist to make something that would be practical in size and weight.
The option for no OS at all too. At the very least provide me with a clean install of the OS you choose, and proper installation media--meaning none of this hidden partition crap most OEMs use these days.
I know Dell does. HP I'm not sure about but I believe they do as well. The trick is you have to buy the business class computers like the Optiplex(desktops) or Latitudes(laptops) to get the install disks with out extra OEM crap. You may pay extra for these but I think its worth it. Not only do you get a cleaner OS load but the hardware is usually built to better standards as well.
I'm hope you mean hooking up two monitors to one laptop not two monitors on one laptop.;-)
Ok ok enough joking. There are some laptops you can do this one. The Dell Latitude D class laptops have this ability with the docking station. You just have to have a DVI connection on one monitor and VGA on the other. I usually use two Dell Ultra Sharps to accomplish this but that just me. I do wish Dell would put two DVI and VGA on their port reps, instead of one each, but it still gets the job done.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.;-)
I just don't trust any company with that level of access to my PC. It's not that Blizzard would want to steal my personal info. I'm more worried about one of their employees getting itchy fingers and stealing SSNs or credit cards. It only takes one bad person to exploit a system like that. An employee with the right access could also find a flaw and sell it on the black market to someone interested what would amount to an encrypted root kit already installed on millions of PCs.
...that I don't play WoW.I always steered clear of it because of the amount of time it requires if you want to have a decent character but stuff like this is just one more powerful reason. It's getting to the point where you need to have a leisure PC and a PC for your finances(i.e. shopping, working, accounting programs) so you know you're personal information is relatively secure.
I don't really see why the RIAA can't keep doing this, even though its stupid.
I see why. The RIAA is stupid if they think a bunch of college law professors with time on their hands, nothing to loose and a class full of students who are tech savvy are going to just roll over when they come waving their dubious proof of file sharing. Can anyone say class project? Especially for the doctorate law students.
Human brains have evolved to include a very advance ability to recognize patterns in order to survive. Over the centuries we have developed an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the world around us and what make it tick. We have done this by observing patterns and interpreting their meanings to gain an understand of how things work.
Consequently when we run into an unknown variable in a pattern, especially patterns related to situations we perceive as dangerous, we fear it. In the case of shootings we don't really know what cause certain people to go off the deep end and start killing people, while other experience the same stimulus and don't kill, but we look for a cause none the less. Even though statistically those that kill might be a small percentage of gun owners, video game players or watchers violent TV/movies it is still the only commonality that we can find so we blame those things for the problem because it scares us to death to think that we couldn't recognize a killer amongst us. Sometimes we just have to understand that we don't understand something and keep working on finding a solution with out freaking out.
A quick internet search will show there's no ground for your blame of capitalism. In the future we'll have robotic sex-slave with downloadable procedures. The day the bj.bite virus hits is going to be a very sad day.
So you're telling me Lorena Bobbitt is teaching programming now?
Rename all your Porn to "How to build a deck." "How to fix an engine."
That is even more dangerous. She might actually expect you to do something now.;-)
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...that detects when you are shop lifting and hits you with a tazer!!!
I'll save those that reply the obligatory "don't taze me bro!!"
Reminds me of chapter one of myspace the movie Warning!! video link
Dude she's got "the angles" - the myspace angles, a shot of her but, legs, lips but no full body shot... all the ugys girls have those shots.
I want to meet that.
I won't argue that the rule is dumb just that it is possible to use them to make an explosive. You and I both know that a quick trip to the supermarket you could purchase all the chemicals you need to make an explosive device. The truth is that unless you completely restrain everyone or sedate them there is alway going to be a risk that someone will sneak something on a plane and use it to hijack the plane.
In all fairness lithium is a highly reactive substance. You could conceivably take a number of batteries on a flight head back to the restroom crack them open and construct and incendiary device. Check out this link for a little more info The Preparatory Manual of Black Powder and Pyrotechnics
Granted the laptop batteries aren't lithium nitride but they are close.
I googled around and found this article comparing red vs green lasers.
From the article
Red versus Green laser pointers
The most obvious difference between green and red laser pointers is beam visibility. The human eye is most sensitive to light with a wavelength of approximately 555nm (yellow/green) which makes green lasers much more visible than red lasers. Green laser can appear to be roughly 50 times brighter than red lasers.
Unfortunately my experiences in computer support do not seem to support that theory.
My cat is already horrible at catching mice. I can't imagine she would catch any if she glows.
...come to think of it can you make the mice glow instead??!!!
Have you ever tired to teach a lot of non-technical people to follow security procedures? I work for a CPA firm that takes security pretty seriously. All of our hard drives encrypted. We have a secure webportal to transfer files instead of sending them via e-mail. We have encrypted usb thumb drives.
We have tried to train our employee's to use these tools so as to be secure but I still catch people sending things via e-mail and using unencrypted USB drives that they bought. It's not a huge percentage of people but it still happens and all it takes is one person not following the rules.
The point I'm trying to drive home is that at best you can only hope to mitigate your exposure to data theft. Encrypting your disks is a step in the right direction. As for your assertions that they use unencrypted USB drives and unencrypted e-mail well please sight a source that tells us for sure that they are unencrypted. Otherwise you're just making assumptions and we all know what happens when you do that...
If you lived in Canada would you want to come to the US? I'm surprised Canada hasn't built a fence.
...kinda like switching on the light in a run down crack house and seeing the rats and roaches scurry for cover to hide.
... your local monopoly telco. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon, AA&T and their ilk paid for this study so they could go cry to congress about needing more subsidies so the internet doesn't "brownout".
You're right, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to hook it up to army drill sargeants or sailors either. It would be fun to hook up to the pointy haired boss... just to see if anything comes out.
...your antivirus software is up-to-date before you plug your brain in cause I hear it really sucks when your brain Snow Crashes!
Wow, that would be too bulky, not to mention heavy, to do with current technology. It may be possible to do in the future but as it stands now the technology doesn't exist to make something that would be practical in size and weight.
I know Dell does. HP I'm not sure about but I believe they do as well. The trick is you have to buy the business class computers like the Optiplex(desktops) or Latitudes(laptops) to get the install disks with out extra OEM crap. You may pay extra for these but I think its worth it. Not only do you get a cleaner OS load but the hardware is usually built to better standards as well.
I'm hope you mean hooking up two monitors to one laptop not two monitors on one laptop. ;-)
Ok ok enough joking. There are some laptops you can do this one. The Dell Latitude D class laptops have this ability with the docking station. You just have to have a DVI connection on one monitor and VGA on the other. I usually use two Dell Ultra Sharps to accomplish this but that just me. I do wish Dell would put two DVI and VGA on their port reps, instead of one each, but it still gets the job done.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. ;-)
I just don't trust any company with that level of access to my PC. It's not that Blizzard would want to steal my personal info. I'm more worried about one of their employees getting itchy fingers and stealing SSNs or credit cards. It only takes one bad person to exploit a system like that. An employee with the right access could also find a flaw and sell it on the black market to someone interested what would amount to an encrypted root kit already installed on millions of PCs.
...that I don't play WoW.I always steered clear of it because of the amount of time it requires if you want to have a decent character but stuff like this is just one more powerful reason. It's getting to the point where you need to have a leisure PC and a PC for your finances(i.e. shopping, working, accounting programs) so you know you're personal information is relatively secure.
I see why. The RIAA is stupid if they think a bunch of college law professors with time on their hands, nothing to loose and a class full of students who are tech savvy are going to just roll over when they come waving their dubious proof of file sharing. Can anyone say class project? Especially for the doctorate law students.
Human brains have evolved to include a very advance ability to recognize patterns in order to survive. Over the centuries we have developed an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the world around us and what make it tick. We have done this by observing patterns and interpreting their meanings to gain an understand of how things work.
Consequently when we run into an unknown variable in a pattern, especially patterns related to situations we perceive as dangerous, we fear it. In the case of shootings we don't really know what cause certain people to go off the deep end and start killing people, while other experience the same stimulus and don't kill, but we look for a cause none the less. Even though statistically those that kill might be a small percentage of gun owners, video game players or watchers violent TV/movies it is still the only commonality that we can find so we blame those things for the problem because it scares us to death to think that we couldn't recognize a killer amongst us. Sometimes we just have to understand that we don't understand something and keep working on finding a solution with out freaking out.
... that stuff doesn't make twinkies healthy why would I want to eat more of it?
So you're telling me Lorena Bobbitt is teaching programming now?
That is even more dangerous. She might actually expect you to do something now.