I hadn't considered doing it previously, but I'm changing my fstab to disallow running programs on CDROMs, but thumbdrives are a bit tougher to handle as you don't know what they are by default and Linux seems to be perfectly happy mounting them without consideration for whether or not the noexec option is necessary.
I guess I'll have to do a bit more digging to figure out how to change that setting, considering how important it is, there's got to be a way of doing that. I don't mind the once in a long while that I legitimately need to execute a file from a removeable disk having to manually permit it.
If you do that, you may as well just snip the wires and disconnect the ports. Then have IT lecture anybody that asks why their thumbdrive isn't working about the risks of plugging in non-approved drives.
The bigger issue though is situations where workers can reasonably claim to need to plug one in for work. I'm not sure that there's any software out there that allows you to only mount approved drives.
If you're going to do that, do yourself a favor and load up your favorite live CD to do it. You're not likely going to get infected that way if the entire system is running from RAM. I'm sure that it is technically possible, but it's unlikely that anybody is going to go to that kind of trouble without knowing who specifically is going to be loading the drive on what computer, and have some means of retrieving the device anonymously.
This sounds more like an updated version of the let's enroll in home ec class in order to get a date scheme that many have had over the years. Chances are good that if you need to do that sort of thing, that you're still not going to get anywhere.
I don't use FB or Google+, but from what I've read, it's a friends list, which allows you to define people as being in a circle, allowing you to post those stupid party pics that people seem enamored with only to people that were there, or who would appreciate them, without having to worry about your parents or potential employers seeing them. It could still happen, but it would take a lot more than just posting them to result in the images getting spread everywhere.
Considering that those dialogs include other people's potentially private information, I'd be horrified if they allowed you to export those as well. Perhaps they could just export your half of the conversation.
Considering how poorly thought out FB privacy is, I'm not surprised that you expect to be able to export that as well.
But, then again, I don't use FB because of the myriad other privacy problems they have.
Indeed, given the goofs that Google has made with respect to data over the years, I wouldn't trust them with my data without some means of creating my backup. Which is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for my using Google+, the ability to control where my data ends up is also in a smiliar state. Hence why I never got burned by FB, I wasn't stupid enough to trust them in the first place.
Except that you'll never find a radio receiver without doing door to door searches, and the government for the last decade or so has been more concerned with keeping secrets.
I'm guessing that they spent more time deciding who was the best source of lulz than who was the easiest target. There's just way too many sites that are basically completely unsecured.
AntiSec is against the industry as it is now, not security. It's sort of like the people under communism who were antigovernment, they weren't antigovernment in general, they were anti that particular government.
This is a large part of why I keep to computers as a hobby. I do a lot of the things that the professionals do, on a smaller scale and on hardware that I own, but I don't have to deal with the headaches of folks that are trying to save some bucks and are certain to blame me when their cut rate equipment goes tits up.
Right now I couldn't hack it when it comes to hardware on that scale, but that comes largely from the decision not to waste my time or energy studying the things which are really enterprise only.
And, I do wonder how many other people that could do a phenomenal job aren't even bothering to try because of how miserable the entry level jobs can be. And Pythonesque the policies which appear to be extremely common in the corporate world.
It's a very serious problem in the US, and one of the reasons why it's getting more common for providers to require a photo ID when checking patients in. It's not just the theft that makes it bad, but the fact that the stolen visits end up on the patients medical record. Leading to possible medical mistakes due to treatments not applicable to the person.
And yes, you are correct, that the theft angle of it would likely be a lot less under the new health reform package, much of the theft previously was because it was the only way to get some of the non-emergency care, but there's other reasons to be concerned, as you note.
Exchanging individual EMRs as needed is significantly better than storing all the EMRs in a cloud. If for no other reason than the efficiency with which the records could be stolen.
So does that mean you want plug ins that behave in a flaky manner or plug ins that are greatly limited in what they can do? Because you can't have plug ins that tightly integrate into the browser and ones that are reliable between releases if you don't have some method of saying what versions they're supported on.
Trust me, if the airline industry is in danger of going under because people refuse to be sexually assaulted prior to flying, it will change quickly. The real problem is all the sheeple that willingly put up with that when they don't have to. I can sort of understand people that have to fly for their jobs still flying, but I do have to question the sanity of people that are willing to put up with the increased risk of terrorism so that they can feel safe.
Or just teach them self hypnosis. Hypnosis is bunk for many things, but it does work for pain management. With some practice you can knock any headache to nothingness in a few seconds.
As an American, I can assure you that we really are more of a developing world country in that regards.
We also have a habit of over medicating as well. It bothers me a lot when they want to medicate things like migraines when therapy does just as well. I remember back when I'd have serious problems with migraines, there was a period where I'd have at least one a day for a period of a decade, medication doesn't work well, if at all, but therapy does work.
I don't personally have any trouble with them using this for treating headaches, but I suspect that this will be like the last time that people were using hallucinogens for medicine in that the effects won't be strongly backed enough to justify the side effects. Sort of like pot still is, an effective treatment but where smoking isn't an approved delivery method.
Indeed, I haven't flown in years and I won't be flying anytime soon. I'm considering moving overseas, but instead of catching a plane here, I'm planning to take the train to Canada and catch my flight there.
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I hadn't considered doing it previously, but I'm changing my fstab to disallow running programs on CDROMs, but thumbdrives are a bit tougher to handle as you don't know what they are by default and Linux seems to be perfectly happy mounting them without consideration for whether or not the noexec option is necessary.
I guess I'll have to do a bit more digging to figure out how to change that setting, considering how important it is, there's got to be a way of doing that. I don't mind the once in a long while that I legitimately need to execute a file from a removeable disk having to manually permit it.
If you do that, you may as well just snip the wires and disconnect the ports. Then have IT lecture anybody that asks why their thumbdrive isn't working about the risks of plugging in non-approved drives.
The bigger issue though is situations where workers can reasonably claim to need to plug one in for work. I'm not sure that there's any software out there that allows you to only mount approved drives.
If you're going to do that, do yourself a favor and load up your favorite live CD to do it. You're not likely going to get infected that way if the entire system is running from RAM. I'm sure that it is technically possible, but it's unlikely that anybody is going to go to that kind of trouble without knowing who specifically is going to be loading the drive on what computer, and have some means of retrieving the device anonymously.
Ultimately, we're going to need genital recognition software to solve the problems this system is supposed to solve.
This sounds more like an updated version of the let's enroll in home ec class in order to get a date scheme that many have had over the years. Chances are good that if you need to do that sort of thing, that you're still not going to get anywhere.
Hey now, as a member of the Front for the Liberation of Data, I find both of those groups to be degenerate to the FLD.
I don't use FB or Google+, but from what I've read, it's a friends list, which allows you to define people as being in a circle, allowing you to post those stupid party pics that people seem enamored with only to people that were there, or who would appreciate them, without having to worry about your parents or potential employers seeing them. It could still happen, but it would take a lot more than just posting them to result in the images getting spread everywhere.
Considering that those dialogs include other people's potentially private information, I'd be horrified if they allowed you to export those as well. Perhaps they could just export your half of the conversation.
Considering how poorly thought out FB privacy is, I'm not surprised that you expect to be able to export that as well.
But, then again, I don't use FB because of the myriad other privacy problems they have.
Indeed, given the goofs that Google has made with respect to data over the years, I wouldn't trust them with my data without some means of creating my backup. Which is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for my using Google+, the ability to control where my data ends up is also in a smiliar state. Hence why I never got burned by FB, I wasn't stupid enough to trust them in the first place.
Except that you'll never find a radio receiver without doing door to door searches, and the government for the last decade or so has been more concerned with keeping secrets.
I'm guessing that they spent more time deciding who was the best source of lulz than who was the easiest target. There's just way too many sites that are basically completely unsecured.
You don't think that selling your sole to Satan requires arcane rituals?
AntiSec is against the industry as it is now, not security. It's sort of like the people under communism who were antigovernment, they weren't antigovernment in general, they were anti that particular government.
This is a large part of why I keep to computers as a hobby. I do a lot of the things that the professionals do, on a smaller scale and on hardware that I own, but I don't have to deal with the headaches of folks that are trying to save some bucks and are certain to blame me when their cut rate equipment goes tits up.
Right now I couldn't hack it when it comes to hardware on that scale, but that comes largely from the decision not to waste my time or energy studying the things which are really enterprise only.
And, I do wonder how many other people that could do a phenomenal job aren't even bothering to try because of how miserable the entry level jobs can be. And Pythonesque the policies which appear to be extremely common in the corporate world.
It's a very serious problem in the US, and one of the reasons why it's getting more common for providers to require a photo ID when checking patients in. It's not just the theft that makes it bad, but the fact that the stolen visits end up on the patients medical record. Leading to possible medical mistakes due to treatments not applicable to the person.
And yes, you are correct, that the theft angle of it would likely be a lot less under the new health reform package, much of the theft previously was because it was the only way to get some of the non-emergency care, but there's other reasons to be concerned, as you note.
Exchanging individual EMRs as needed is significantly better than storing all the EMRs in a cloud. If for no other reason than the efficiency with which the records could be stolen.
So does that mean you want plug ins that behave in a flaky manner or plug ins that are greatly limited in what they can do? Because you can't have plug ins that tightly integrate into the browser and ones that are reliable between releases if you don't have some method of saying what versions they're supported on.
Fire fox is not fucking IE6.
Damn straight. If Firefox is fucking any browser, it's Opera.
Fo' shizzle.
I see you're protesting Euler's main number.
Anthony's Weiner is up for it!
FTFY
Trust me, if the airline industry is in danger of going under because people refuse to be sexually assaulted prior to flying, it will change quickly. The real problem is all the sheeple that willingly put up with that when they don't have to. I can sort of understand people that have to fly for their jobs still flying, but I do have to question the sanity of people that are willing to put up with the increased risk of terrorism so that they can feel safe.
Or just teach them self hypnosis. Hypnosis is bunk for many things, but it does work for pain management. With some practice you can knock any headache to nothingness in a few seconds.
As an American, I can assure you that we really are more of a developing world country in that regards.
We also have a habit of over medicating as well. It bothers me a lot when they want to medicate things like migraines when therapy does just as well. I remember back when I'd have serious problems with migraines, there was a period where I'd have at least one a day for a period of a decade, medication doesn't work well, if at all, but therapy does work.
I don't personally have any trouble with them using this for treating headaches, but I suspect that this will be like the last time that people were using hallucinogens for medicine in that the effects won't be strongly backed enough to justify the side effects. Sort of like pot still is, an effective treatment but where smoking isn't an approved delivery method.
Indeed, I haven't flown in years and I won't be flying anytime soon. I'm considering moving overseas, but instead of catching a plane here, I'm planning to take the train to Canada and catch my flight there.