How is this any different from users forgetting the passwords to their computer? I know that windows lets you make (For home edition at least) a "password reset disc". Basically, you make this disc and if you ever forget your password, you insert the disc and click "use password reset disc" and it resets your password.
The same thing could be applied to these password protected folders.
What's the point of this system. It's designed to be mounted at the airport. What good will this do for the airplane that's flying several hundred miles away from the airport?
I believe that's why we have these things that make really freaking loud noises called "tornado sirens" whenever there's a danger of a tornado coming your way.
After the State Department break-ins, many employees were instructed to change their passwords. The department also temporarily disabled a technology known as secure sockets layer, used to transmit encrypted information over the Internet.
Wait a minute, they actually disabled their security after they got hit with an attack??!? Someone tell me if I'm wrong about secure sockets layer being a security measure of sorts.
I really highly doubt that that's possible, if it was, you'd have to orbit a lot more than once to catch the ship. You're both traveling at crazy fast speeds around the earth. If you push in one direction, you're only adding/subtracting a very very small amount of speed from you, you won't pass the shuttle for a hell of a long time.
No, not necessarily. I think the main factor behind the price of the new formats is the fact that the companies CAN charge a billion dollars per unit. Those units have one laser, and a couple lenses made to read only one type of data. Combining the technologies really isn't that hard in concept. You have one laser and a few lenses. If data on a disc is basically a bunch of burnt holes in a piece of metal, then all you have to do is shape the laser to read all of the possible different types of holes in the disc.
So, assuming that all manufactures charged what it actually cost to manufacture the one-format-only drives. This new drive would cost slightly more (blue laser, different lenses), but the price doesn't jump with each new format it can read/write.
"Our right to privacy is protected by the need for warrants; making it harder for officials to conduct lawful investigations just helps criminals." "Although it is true that most buildings will never need to be investigated some will have bodies buried under the basement."
I don't really care if the FBI has to spend an extra week serving me with a court order to force me to allow them access to my network. If defeating the proposed legislation means that every investigation takes a week longer and that some will go unsolved, then too damn bad. Citizens should not have to give up freedom and privacy for protection.
You make the argument that the FBI will still have to obtain warrants in order to snoop on people's networks. While this may be true, adding this capability to the current system opens the door for abuse and unauthorised activities by law enforcement, which is already occurring way too much with the current system.
Alright, all of the microsoft related car jokes I could find: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off!
11. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
12. Written on the blue airbag: A fatal exception has occurred.....
Seriously, I walked around my (small) neighborhood the other day with a laptop and netstumbler. I picked up over a hundred networks, 90% of which were open. And yeah, I live in Colorado.
It's great to know that the cops will now be focusing on the real danger. Instead of those drunk and/or reckless drivers, we'll be warning people about their wireless networks.
OK, they want to stop child porn. And to do that they're going to stockpile a ton of it? Is there some question as to the definition of "child porn" or some type of miscommunication that prevents someone from looking it up in the dictionary? Because if the people enforcing these policies can't identify child porn without looking at 100 other child porn images first, then we have one hell of a problem on our hands.
Stockpiling these images isn't going to do anything at all. If they wanted to create some type of program that could identify porn, they could do it with the millions of legal (most of which are free) images on the web.
"As you can see every single console is a victim of energy leakage to some extent. The losers here are the Xbox 360 and PS2, however the PS2 is the biggest loser of the group. There are a few points that need to be made. While both consoles need to power their internal clocks, they also need to keep their IR ports constants scanning for remote controls trying to power on the console explaining the added power requirements. The Xbox 360 also has to keep its internal wireless card active otherwise it wouldn't notice when a controller is sending a request for the machine to turn on. So while both machines require the most power, the Xbox 360 has the most components that need to remain powered in standby making the energy leakage a little more acceptable. The idea of spending $2.68 just to have a PS2 plugged in the wall is less then desirable."
Alright, so they state that the PS2 and the XBOX360 use the exact same amount of power when turned off (look at the chart in the article). They also say that the XBOX360 runs more crap than the PS2, but they say that the PS2 is "the biggest looser of the group". WTF?
Actually, people do know. They've tried it and it works. People have been able to recover data up to something like 2-4 overwrites and it's theoretically possible up to something like 5-7. However I believe this "theoretical" limit requires millions of dollars in technology.
From TFA: "Yes, we are double the price of HD-DVD, but we are confident people will buy as many as we can build."
Well if you only build like 50, then that's no problem now is it.
Actually, I'm having doubts that people will buy even 50 of these. Who's going to spend $1000 to watch 10 different titles?
To my knowledge it's not illegal to sell M rated games to underage children as the ESRB ratings are A FUCKING GUIDELINE NOT AN ALMIGHTY GOD TO BE OBEYED BY EVERYONE. (sorry, just had to vent there).
Anyway, this survey proves just about as much as one saying that minors are allowed into PG-13 rated movies without accompanying adults.
I fully agree with you except for one point. I'm pretty sure looking at porn with government computers isn't allowed, so...... they did one thing right.
Well if you're in charge of blocking websites then filter out the personal shopping ones. No one would get written up. Now, I'm not too sure how the hell 90% of the bandwidth during non-school hours could all be personal shopping and have no one get caught, perhaps I misunderstood your comment.
Why the hell would the amount of nudity on a given site have anything at all to do with how many viruses and trojans the site tries to get you to download?
Take playbloy.com for example, I highly doubt that there are any viruses or trojans on that site, yet there's a hell of a lot of nudity.
Now, take other "OMFG FREE P0RNZ CLICKZ0RZ H3R3!!!ONE!" sites that display some random pornographic image while it tries to install no less than 3 trojans on your system. Less nudity, more scamming.
http://www.mailblocks.com/ does this, they set up a bunch of honeypot email addresses that capture spam. They use this data to block certain servers from sending email to any mailblocks customer (both free and paid members).
Alright, the article says that you need a microphone listening to your TV right? Now, unless Google is sneaking microphones into everyone's homes, the only way you could be spied on is if you agreed to have one placed in your home. If you agree to have one placed in your home, you probably aren't worried about Google spying on you. Saying that Google will use this to spy on people is like saying that the NSA will spy on people who email them all of their personal information, daily habits, etc.
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How is this any different from users forgetting the passwords to their computer?
I know that windows lets you make (For home edition at least) a "password reset disc". Basically, you make this disc and if you ever forget your password, you insert the disc and click "use password reset disc" and it resets your password.
The same thing could be applied to these password protected folders.
What's the point of this system. It's designed to be mounted at the airport. What good will this do for the airplane that's flying several hundred miles away from the airport?
Well see by "shield" we mean "umbrella". It's some technical jargon that you don't have to bother yourself with.
I believe that's why we have these things that make really freaking loud noises called "tornado sirens" whenever there's a danger of a tornado coming your way.
After the State Department break-ins, many employees were instructed to change their passwords. The department also temporarily disabled a technology known as secure sockets layer, used to transmit encrypted information over the Internet.
Wait a minute, they actually disabled their security after they got hit with an attack??!? Someone tell me if I'm wrong about secure sockets layer being a security measure of sorts.
If you were stuck in space for 6 months at a time with one other person you'd get pretty damn bored too.
Well yes this is true. IF AND ONLY IF you go from traveling thousands of miles per hour on the shuttle to 0 miles per hour standing still in space.
I really highly doubt that that's possible, if it was, you'd have to orbit a lot more than once to catch the ship.
You're both traveling at crazy fast speeds around the earth. If you push in one direction, you're only adding/subtracting a very very small amount of speed from you, you won't pass the shuttle for a hell of a long time.
Seriously, this is great work. But it's not like they can't just go and change the codes.
No, not necessarily.
I think the main factor behind the price of the new formats is the fact that the companies CAN charge a billion dollars per unit.
Those units have one laser, and a couple lenses made to read only one type of data.
Combining the technologies really isn't that hard in concept.
You have one laser and a few lenses. If data on a disc is basically a bunch of burnt holes in a piece of metal, then all you have to do is shape the laser to read all of the possible different types of holes in the disc.
So, assuming that all manufactures charged what it actually cost to manufacture the one-format-only drives. This new drive would cost slightly more (blue laser, different lenses), but the price doesn't jump with each new format it can read/write.
"Our right to privacy is protected by the need for warrants; making it harder for officials to conduct lawful investigations just helps criminals."
"Although it is true that most buildings will never need to be investigated some will have bodies buried under the basement."
I don't really care if the FBI has to spend an extra week serving me with a court order to force me to allow them access to my network. If defeating the proposed legislation means that every investigation takes a week longer and that some will go unsolved, then too damn bad. Citizens should not have to give up freedom and privacy for protection.
You make the argument that the FBI will still have to obtain warrants in order to snoop on people's networks. While this may be true, adding this capability to the current system opens the door for abuse and unauthorised activities by law enforcement, which is already occurring way too much with the current system.
Alright, all of the microsoft related car jokes I could find:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off!
11. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
12. Written on the blue airbag: A fatal exception has occurred.....
Right, we have to wait for breakthroughs to heal people; but we have the technology to kill them right now, so why not do that?
I'm sorry but I just don't think your argument makes much sense.
Seriously, I walked around my (small) neighborhood the other day with a laptop and netstumbler. I picked up over a hundred networks, 90% of which were open.
And yeah, I live in Colorado.
It's great to know that the cops will now be focusing on the real danger. Instead of those drunk and/or reckless drivers, we'll be warning people about their wireless networks.
OK, they want to stop child porn. And to do that they're going to stockpile a ton of it?
Is there some question as to the definition of "child porn" or some type of miscommunication that prevents someone from looking it up in the dictionary? Because if the people enforcing these policies can't identify child porn without looking at 100 other child porn images first, then we have one hell of a problem on our hands.
Stockpiling these images isn't going to do anything at all. If they wanted to create some type of program that could identify porn, they could do it with the millions of legal (most of which are free) images on the web.
"As you can see every single console is a victim of energy leakage to some extent. The losers here are the Xbox 360 and PS2, however the PS2 is the biggest loser of the group. There are a few points that need to be made. While both consoles need to power their internal clocks, they also need to keep their IR ports constants scanning for remote controls trying to power on the console explaining the added power requirements. The Xbox 360 also has to keep its internal wireless card active otherwise it wouldn't notice when a controller is sending a request for the machine to turn on. So while both machines require the most power, the Xbox 360 has the most components that need to remain powered in standby making the energy leakage a little more acceptable. The idea of spending $2.68 just to have a PS2 plugged in the wall is less then desirable."
Alright, so they state that the PS2 and the XBOX360 use the exact same amount of power when turned off (look at the chart in the article). They also say that the XBOX360 runs more crap than the PS2, but they say that the PS2 is "the biggest looser of the group". WTF?
That's a good idea.... until you pull 5 Gs trying to avoid an enemy fighter and kill the mouse.
Equip the mouse with a flight suit though, and you're all set.
Actually, people do know. They've tried it and it works. People have been able to recover data up to something like 2-4 overwrites and it's theoretically possible up to something like 5-7. However I believe this "theoretical" limit requires millions of dollars in technology.
From TFA: "Yes, we are double the price of HD-DVD, but we are confident people will buy as many as we can build." Well if you only build like 50, then that's no problem now is it. Actually, I'm having doubts that people will buy even 50 of these. Who's going to spend $1000 to watch 10 different titles?
To my knowledge it's not illegal to sell M rated games to underage children as the ESRB ratings are A FUCKING GUIDELINE NOT AN ALMIGHTY GOD TO BE OBEYED BY EVERYONE. (sorry, just had to vent there).
Anyway, this survey proves just about as much as one saying that minors are allowed into PG-13 rated movies without accompanying adults.
I fully agree with you except for one point. I'm pretty sure looking at porn with government computers isn't allowed, so...... they did one thing right.
Well if you're in charge of blocking websites then filter out the personal shopping ones. No one would get written up.
Now, I'm not too sure how the hell 90% of the bandwidth during non-school hours could all be personal shopping and have no one get caught, perhaps I misunderstood your comment.
Why the hell would the amount of nudity on a given site have anything at all to do with how many viruses and trojans the site tries to get you to download?
Take playbloy.com for example, I highly doubt that there are any viruses or trojans on that site, yet there's a hell of a lot of nudity.
Now, take other "OMFG FREE P0RNZ CLICKZ0RZ H3R3!!!ONE!" sites that display some random pornographic image while it tries to install no less than 3 trojans on your system. Less nudity, more scamming.
http://www.mailblocks.com/ does this, they set up a bunch of honeypot email addresses that capture spam. They use this data to block certain servers from sending email to any mailblocks customer (both free and paid members).
Alright, the article says that you need a microphone listening to your TV right? Now, unless Google is sneaking microphones into everyone's homes, the only way you could be spied on is if you agreed to have one placed in your home. If you agree to have one placed in your home, you probably aren't worried about Google spying on you.
Saying that Google will use this to spy on people is like saying that the NSA will spy on people who email them all of their personal information, daily habits, etc.