The main reason why the BSD implementation is several versions behind is that ZFS has been under rapid development lately. Last time I checked, FreeBSD had the important features ported, with a few nice to haves not yet available. The important work was on the performance end of things and squashing OS specific bugs. This won't remain like this forever, at some point ZFS will mostly be fleshed out and in need of only a small number of tweaks, at which point I doubt other OSes will be that far behind. A filesystem isn't terribly useful if only one specific release can properly utilize it.
It is, however, it's not BSD code, it's a port of the code from Sun. Well, now belonging to Oracle, I'm not sure how they could sue the FreeBSD people without first filing suit against Oracle for infringing on whatever patents they claim are relevant.
So, that's your backwards way of agreeing? Perhaps if people are incompetent boobs, it might be nice to know for sure so that we can get them the hell out of here.
There's right ways to do that and wrong ways to do that. The military is not a democracy if your CO doesn't agree or isn't interested in listening you don't have much say in what happens. The military isn't really known for tolerating insubordination. In fact they have entire facilities and commands filled with people that thought they were smarter than the folks higher up the chain. Generally they are places which are quite unpleasant and in parts of the world which are even less desirable than combat zones. The last thing you want to do is go public with something like this, whatever the outcome you can be pretty sure that you're not going to be occupying the same position for too much longer after that.
There's guts and then there's stupidity. I'm guessing that as a Colonel, that perhaps he should've known better than to write such a thin as an Op-ed piece. The military is not a democracy and while expressing respect for rank can get one some leeway, certain things are just not to be discussed other than with requisite discretion.
Being fired like this is almost certain to have zero impact on anything going on. Had he opted to more or less keep his mouth shut he could've at least impressed upon his subordinates that they are not to do it themselves.
Indeed, Powerpoint and similar when used correctly are helpful. The problem is that people don't generally know how to use presentation software. Good uses are diagrams relevant to the talk, and a hint as to what the take away is from a section. The problem is that rather than using it as a supplement to the talk, people are essentially putting the entire talk into the Powerpoint and then reading it to the people there. Which is bunk. Personally, I don't use it at all because it's quite a bit easier for me to keep people paying attention if I'm tracking what they're looking like and changing things up as needed.
That's not correct. They develop the bugs so that they have something to theoretically use on the other side as a hail Mary, they develop the drugs on the off chance that some of us survive and hopefully none of them. What you're proposing is nonsense, they don't decide that "hey we need a new vaccine," it's more like "hey we need the ability to wipe out everybody else."
But yes from time to time there's useful stuff that comes out of it as a pure accident.
I wish I had mod points left. That's precisely the point, by definition malware is bad, it isn't like ethical hacking which is a dubious practice, malware is uniformly bad. The only instance that I could possibly imagine an exception to that would be law enforcement taps, but even that's questionable.
Pharmaceuticals is a bit different. They couldn't afford to do things any differently. I suppose the government could pay all the R&D costs and then have the companies be basically just service organizations. Doing the research and producing the ultimate medications on a sort of generic basis. But under the current circumstances there isn't much choice involved.
Console companies on the other hand, have a choice, they don't have to use the system as a loss leader and make it up on the content. In fact given the way that things have been going, perhaps they shouldn't. Perhaps they should just sell the console as unlocked have at them, save the R&D money for more useful pursuits and just acknowledge that used games and homebrew are going to happen whether they like it or not.
Not necessarily, Would a 16x CDROM be 8 times faster than a 2x CDROM or an 8x CDROM drive? Which is one of the reasons why that was always kind of a stupid way of naming things. Because technically it is 8x faster, because 1x is a defined unit.
Most of them went out of fashion in the mid 90s. I remember having a lot of trouble with my first computer because very little of it was actually standardized. In those days you really had to be mindful that you got something that was 100% IBM compatible rather than just IBM compatible which probably meant that the interior workings required proprietary boards to work. But even then the exterior things like serial port, parallel port and such were standard as far as I can recall.
Given that eventually somebody found an exploit in the OpenBSD base install, I'd say it's a given that with enough of an incentive you can find one in any OS, it just takes longer for some than for others.
I was a bit surprised, but you're indeed correct about that. Not only that, but it's questionable as to whether the hard disk would be effected either. Theoretically you could amp up the magnetic field enough to destroy the SD card, from what I gather you'd also be removing the iron from the blood vessels with a magnetic field that strong.Busting the Biggest PC Myths
If the data is that sensitive you're better off with metal detectors and good old fashioned cavity searches.
That was my thought, why are they allowing physical access to the USB ports without properly monitoring the devices being allowed to be used in the machines. Physical access to the keyboard and mouse is enough of a security risk as it is, but allowing people to plug in strange USB devices without first inspecting them strikes me as irresponsible. Admittedly, people do have to do their work, but I'm not sure why they weren't being required to scan the information on the drive before connecting it up to a secured computer.
There's no reason why the check point computer even needs to be connected to the net at all if you're willing to do manual updates to the security software via disk.
If the two never meet, then how do you explain that data breech where they lost terabytes of information to the internet? I'm not sure why the classified DARPA stuff wouldn't be similarly secured.
There's a problem with your logic, guns are used far more often in the US for nefarious purposes than you give credit for. The most likely person to be killed with a firearm is the owner. The other problem is that the 2nd amendment as written doesn't apply to anybody, as there haven't been any regulated militias in the US in quite some time, nor has there been a pressing need for it.
Well, there's a difference. The Three Stooges were clearly high class art films, whereas Star wars was very clearly more equivalent to something coming from Chihuly or Kinkade. Or it might possibly be that George Lucas grew up on The Three Stooges and didn't want them screwing with his childhood memories.
Indeed, the main risk there is assuming the exe is still the same as the last time or absentmindedly clicking on it because you're not paying attention.
Depends how much data. It's faster for me to take a USB HDD across town than it is to try and send 100gb of data over the wire, but for a couple MB of data, it's usually quicker to send it over the net, even if it does end up going around the world.
Indeed, the manual for DOS being larger than the Bible probably didn't hurt either. One of the nice things about Macs at that point in time was that they'd require you to unmount the disk before ejecting it. Granted you did have the paperclip option, but it was generally only used for emergencies.
Whereas with DOS you had to be somewhat careful about taking disks in and out to avoid filesystem corruption.
What you have to realize is that half of Americans roughly think fascism is a really good idea, and most of the other half are too stupid to notice. Electing judges is kind of funky, but it didn't used to be any worse than having them be appointed. These days it's getting worse as various organizations are spending more money to put judges on the bench that will be sympathetic. Things worked a lot better when Senators were appointed by a state's congressional delegation instead of via elections.
What makes you think that? Wouldn't it be more logical for it to be a reference to "Yearbook"? Considering that facebook is itself a reference to a reference to yearbook itself.
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The main reason why the BSD implementation is several versions behind is that ZFS has been under rapid development lately. Last time I checked, FreeBSD had the important features ported, with a few nice to haves not yet available. The important work was on the performance end of things and squashing OS specific bugs. This won't remain like this forever, at some point ZFS will mostly be fleshed out and in need of only a small number of tweaks, at which point I doubt other OSes will be that far behind. A filesystem isn't terribly useful if only one specific release can properly utilize it.
It is, however, it's not BSD code, it's a port of the code from Sun. Well, now belonging to Oracle, I'm not sure how they could sue the FreeBSD people without first filing suit against Oracle for infringing on whatever patents they claim are relevant.
So, that's your backwards way of agreeing? Perhaps if people are incompetent boobs, it might be nice to know for sure so that we can get them the hell out of here.
There's right ways to do that and wrong ways to do that. The military is not a democracy if your CO doesn't agree or isn't interested in listening you don't have much say in what happens. The military isn't really known for tolerating insubordination. In fact they have entire facilities and commands filled with people that thought they were smarter than the folks higher up the chain. Generally they are places which are quite unpleasant and in parts of the world which are even less desirable than combat zones. The last thing you want to do is go public with something like this, whatever the outcome you can be pretty sure that you're not going to be occupying the same position for too much longer after that.
There's guts and then there's stupidity. I'm guessing that as a Colonel, that perhaps he should've known better than to write such a thin as an Op-ed piece. The military is not a democracy and while expressing respect for rank can get one some leeway, certain things are just not to be discussed other than with requisite discretion.
Being fired like this is almost certain to have zero impact on anything going on. Had he opted to more or less keep his mouth shut he could've at least impressed upon his subordinates that they are not to do it themselves.
Indeed, Powerpoint and similar when used correctly are helpful. The problem is that people don't generally know how to use presentation software. Good uses are diagrams relevant to the talk, and a hint as to what the take away is from a section. The problem is that rather than using it as a supplement to the talk, people are essentially putting the entire talk into the Powerpoint and then reading it to the people there. Which is bunk. Personally, I don't use it at all because it's quite a bit easier for me to keep people paying attention if I'm tracking what they're looking like and changing things up as needed.
So, you're saying that he just has a stunning lack of common sense or ethics?
That's not correct. They develop the bugs so that they have something to theoretically use on the other side as a hail Mary, they develop the drugs on the off chance that some of us survive and hopefully none of them. What you're proposing is nonsense, they don't decide that "hey we need a new vaccine," it's more like "hey we need the ability to wipe out everybody else."
But yes from time to time there's useful stuff that comes out of it as a pure accident.
I wish I had mod points left. That's precisely the point, by definition malware is bad, it isn't like ethical hacking which is a dubious practice, malware is uniformly bad. The only instance that I could possibly imagine an exception to that would be law enforcement taps, but even that's questionable.
Pharmaceuticals is a bit different. They couldn't afford to do things any differently. I suppose the government could pay all the R&D costs and then have the companies be basically just service organizations. Doing the research and producing the ultimate medications on a sort of generic basis. But under the current circumstances there isn't much choice involved.
Console companies on the other hand, have a choice, they don't have to use the system as a loss leader and make it up on the content. In fact given the way that things have been going, perhaps they shouldn't. Perhaps they should just sell the console as unlocked have at them, save the R&D money for more useful pursuits and just acknowledge that used games and homebrew are going to happen whether they like it or not.
Not necessarily, Would a 16x CDROM be 8 times faster than a 2x CDROM or an 8x CDROM drive? Which is one of the reasons why that was always kind of a stupid way of naming things. Because technically it is 8x faster, because 1x is a defined unit.
Most of them went out of fashion in the mid 90s. I remember having a lot of trouble with my first computer because very little of it was actually standardized. In those days you really had to be mindful that you got something that was 100% IBM compatible rather than just IBM compatible which probably meant that the interior workings required proprietary boards to work. But even then the exterior things like serial port, parallel port and such were standard as far as I can recall.
Given that eventually somebody found an exploit in the OpenBSD base install, I'd say it's a given that with enough of an incentive you can find one in any OS, it just takes longer for some than for others.
I was a bit surprised, but you're indeed correct about that. Not only that, but it's questionable as to whether the hard disk would be effected either. Theoretically you could amp up the magnetic field enough to destroy the SD card, from what I gather you'd also be removing the iron from the blood vessels with a magnetic field that strong.Busting the Biggest PC Myths
If the data is that sensitive you're better off with metal detectors and good old fashioned cavity searches.
That was my thought, why are they allowing physical access to the USB ports without properly monitoring the devices being allowed to be used in the machines. Physical access to the keyboard and mouse is enough of a security risk as it is, but allowing people to plug in strange USB devices without first inspecting them strikes me as irresponsible. Admittedly, people do have to do their work, but I'm not sure why they weren't being required to scan the information on the drive before connecting it up to a secured computer.
There's no reason why the check point computer even needs to be connected to the net at all if you're willing to do manual updates to the security software via disk.
If the two never meet, then how do you explain that data breech where they lost terabytes of information to the internet? I'm not sure why the classified DARPA stuff wouldn't be similarly secured.
There's a problem with your logic, guns are used far more often in the US for nefarious purposes than you give credit for. The most likely person to be killed with a firearm is the owner. The other problem is that the 2nd amendment as written doesn't apply to anybody, as there haven't been any regulated militias in the US in quite some time, nor has there been a pressing need for it.
Well, there's a difference. The Three Stooges were clearly high class art films, whereas Star wars was very clearly more equivalent to something coming from Chihuly or Kinkade. Or it might possibly be that George Lucas grew up on The Three Stooges and didn't want them screwing with his childhood memories.
As do other places, but somehow I doubt that includes military installations, especially by intelligence officers.
Indeed, the main risk there is assuming the exe is still the same as the last time or absentmindedly clicking on it because you're not paying attention.
Depends how much data. It's faster for me to take a USB HDD across town than it is to try and send 100gb of data over the wire, but for a couple MB of data, it's usually quicker to send it over the net, even if it does end up going around the world.
Indeed, the manual for DOS being larger than the Bible probably didn't hurt either. One of the nice things about Macs at that point in time was that they'd require you to unmount the disk before ejecting it. Granted you did have the paperclip option, but it was generally only used for emergencies.
Whereas with DOS you had to be somewhat careful about taking disks in and out to avoid filesystem corruption.
This is precisely why antivirus software gives you the option to automatically scan the drives for viruses every time you insert them.
What you have to realize is that half of Americans roughly think fascism is a really good idea, and most of the other half are too stupid to notice. Electing judges is kind of funky, but it didn't used to be any worse than having them be appointed. These days it's getting worse as various organizations are spending more money to put judges on the bench that will be sympathetic. Things worked a lot better when Senators were appointed by a state's congressional delegation instead of via elections.
What makes you think that? Wouldn't it be more logical for it to be a reference to "Yearbook"? Considering that facebook is itself a reference to a reference to yearbook itself.