If Scalia can get past the four-letter-words while convincing his fellow Justices that this is clearly unConstitutional.
But our goverment is so willing to trample the Constitution just because they have the technology to do so. This is a fight worth fighting. And others as well.
1. Will the corporate IT staff (or your former boss/co-workers etc.) rifle through your drive lookinfg for stuff? If so, a DOD wipe is the only useful alternative, though if you fee strongly enough about this, damaging the hard drive beyond recovery isi the ultimate option. And will annoy the heck out of them, and burn a bridge.
2. Failing that, if you're confident your IT staff will not peruse the drive, but a wipe is out of question, consider cleaning out the files, emptying temp files and histories, and then a few defrags to most throughly move files over and over. Maybe try creating a huge structure of dummy files out to the limits of defrag (20% or so free), let it try twice, and watch it write to virtually every sector trying to optimize. Then delete the dummies and defrag again. Poor man's obfuscation. Marginally effective.
3. After this, not much else is useful IMHO. If you trust your employer and staff at all, ask them if you can do a wipe. I would lobby my employer for that option if I were in their shoes. I don't *want* your data. I want a clean machine if I'm redeploying it, and I'll destroy the drive instead of selling off.
My wife compliments me onhow I can 'fix anything' around the house. Sometimes, that's replacing the part, sometimes it's making a new part.
I have this Herman Miller Scooter table, wicked nice to use, but it came with the black laminate tabletop. I'll get over to the local lumber house and pick out a nicer piece of wood, shape it, finish it, drive some insert nuts in so it will be stronger, and have a nicer table. I have no idea what I'm doing, except it make sense.
I'm watching this Maker movement - and I want a 3D printer. Absolutely. I may never design anything, but I'm thinking these will get a lot better very quickly.
My great-grandfather was a farmer. He fixed stuff because he had to, or hay would rot in the field along with the potatoes and corn. My grandfather drove trucks, and he fixed stuff because he had to or he would not get paid. My father delivered dairy goods to residential clients - milkman, though that doesn't cover all the products he delivered. he fixed stuff cause he still lived on a farm. Ive been a tech most of my working life.
I fixed small appliances etc, because I was too cheap to just buy a new one.
I service the brakes on both my vehicles, flush the cooling systems, replace broken stuff. I send them out for oil changes because that is a fluid I don't care to deal with, and if the brakes wear badly or aren't quite 'right', in it goes to be sure. The Saab is a real challenge. The Explorer is easy. I fixed calculators, dictating machines, typewriters, various office equipment for a living. I bought my first PC when I was 32, tore it apart repeatedly, backed up, restored, reformatted hard drives, messed with it for 4 years straight. I took my first PC service call when I was 36. Installed my first Novell server 9 months later, on a Token-Ring network, courtesy of an insanely great presentation at a Networks Expo in Boston, and a nice man who taught is about T-R. No fear. I 'graduated' through Novell to NT servers, Linux (from the book 'the Internet CD' - yes, Slackware 0.9), helped run the corporate ISP, did wireless backhauls, and all of it with little or no classroom training. I took three Novell courses, andf an abbreviated MCSE course. No certs, just working at it. I loathed the Windows problems with viruses etc. that resulted in a wipe and format. It seemed incredibly lazy to me, but it was also the only way. And I'll be fixing stuff because I cannot imagine being dependent on plumbers, electricians, roofers, HVAC techs, etc who have to charge too much money to cover the overhead.
I see kids all the time tossing stuff because they don't care to figure it out. My contemporaries regularly complain about the cost of getting things around the house fixed - I encourage them to learn some skills, it's not that hard.
But I WANT a 3D printer. Amazing. These are our future. Move manufacturing to the edge where it works.
Since we were discussing the invention of Ethernet, and you profess and demonstrate no knowledge of that, how about you pull your rock back over your hole. No point in learning about such things, eh?
Didn't the Ethernet specs solve some problems such as collision sensing, retrys, etc.?
Claiming Ethernet is 'just wiring' misses a big point. Without wiring, the Internet pretty much can't exist. Those three layers are essential. Before Ethernet, the options were a choice between awful and marginal.
I would like to carry a decent 4" phone for handheld use, in the car, etc. And a 7" tablet that I could tether to the phone. But...
> The carriers are hell-bent on billing me a data service for both devices. I'm only going to use one at a time, and the total data cap I have is enough no matter how I use the devices.
> I have Sensation 4G, and I was planning on avoiding rooting it and living in the stock ROM world for once. Well, TMO took back tethering form the ICS ROM, so I avoided that. I know, if I do root it and install tethering, I'm violating their TOS, so heck. >If my wife could get an iPhone from TMO, I would be happy with a shared plan, though I bet they don't let me share data with 2 phones and a tab. I get unlimited minutes, text, and 2G data for $25 less/mo than my wife gets 700 mins, unlim text, and 2G data from AT&T. That's the iPhone tax, worth about $600 more than my Sensation over a 2yr contract. We may see iPhones with TMO next year, but I'm not expecting it. More likely, my wife will give in and go Android.
So my solution is to tether a tab for when I want it, and carry a decent-sized phone when I don't. Both are useful in different ways.
If I have to, I might buy a supersized phone. Maybe.
Actually,it's not the service providers or any great conspiracy. You just have to pay a bit more to get what you want. There are a LOT of Android phones out there that are not subsidized by the carriers.The injustice there is that getting a prefered rate for a BYOD plan is hard>impossible.
Of course, if you want an Apple phone, you are locked in. Period.
1. I don't have a pocket big enough for a small phone.
2. One pocket has a wallet in it, the other usually change and keys. Back pkckets are where phones go to be bent and cracked.
3. Clips, belt pouches, etc work fine. Some are not noticeable, others are just glommy. Not as stupid as pants on the ground, sir.
4. A phablet or a phone *and* a tablet would be close to justifying my carrying a manbag. If I can find one that isn't too, um, well, you know.
5. Trust me on this, nothing about your phone, even riveting it to your forehead, is effective birth control. Just ain't. But it's fun to trot out that old saw, isn't it?
Hehe. I bought a Palm Pilot. Dropped it on concrete in a week. $100 for a new screen.
Dropped it again a week after it was fixed.
I had various Palms up to a Treo, never dropped another one. Of cours,e my wife dropped her 14 month old iPhone 4 last month, and is too proud to pay to fix it. I'll have to crack it open soon, it acts wierd...
Was the International the first modern SUV? No, Jeeps were in that form factor before that. Land Rovers similarly.
SUVs are not so much a modern invention as a modern success. Woodies were similarly useful, but not many out there. I drove wagons for work from 1978 on, such as Pintos (ugh) and Taurus wagons (useful). My Explorer now gets terrible gas mileage, but I can stuff a full-sized sofa in there, and my wife goes on monthly binges where we need more overstuffed furniture, or potting soil, or mass quantities. Often enough that it si useful
But my near-term plan is to replace the Saab (don't ask) that she won't drive with something reliable, and then get another something so we can park the Explorer and take it out to dinner or for schlepping. Or camping. Or bad weather.
I would be happy to convert it to a diesel-electric hybrid though. Makes sense, since cheaper batteries and a small, efficient diesel generator might work. I'll watch, and there are Explorer (or other SUV) bodies out there that would be great candidates. Might be worth it. I'll need the aux motor to run the A/C in Phoenix.
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If Scalia can get past the four-letter-words while convincing his fellow Justices that this is clearly unConstitutional.
But our goverment is so willing to trample the Constitution just because they have the technology to do so. This is a fight worth fighting. And others as well.
That's my remote management console !
Fine. Let the poster find something to do Secure Erase.
Whatever.
1. Will the corporate IT staff (or your former boss/co-workers etc.) rifle through your drive lookinfg for stuff? If so, a DOD wipe is the only useful alternative, though if you fee strongly enough about this, damaging the hard drive beyond recovery isi the ultimate option. And will annoy the heck out of them, and burn a bridge.
2. Failing that, if you're confident your IT staff will not peruse the drive, but a wipe is out of question, consider cleaning out the files, emptying temp files and histories, and then a few defrags to most throughly move files over and over. Maybe try creating a huge structure of dummy files out to the limits of defrag (20% or so free), let it try twice, and watch it write to virtually every sector trying to optimize. Then delete the dummies and defrag again. Poor man's obfuscation. Marginally effective.
3. After this, not much else is useful IMHO. If you trust your employer and staff at all, ask them if you can do a wipe. I would lobby my employer for that option if I were in their shoes. I don't *want* your data. I want a clean machine if I'm redeploying it, and I'll destroy the drive instead of selling off.
My wife compliments me onhow I can 'fix anything' around the house. Sometimes, that's replacing the part, sometimes it's making a new part.
I have this Herman Miller Scooter table, wicked nice to use, but it came with the black laminate tabletop. I'll get over to the local lumber house and pick out a nicer piece of wood, shape it, finish it, drive some insert nuts in so it will be stronger, and have a nicer table. I have no idea what I'm doing, except it make sense.
I'm watching this Maker movement - and I want a 3D printer. Absolutely. I may never design anything, but I'm thinking these will get a lot better very quickly.
My great-grandfather was a farmer. He fixed stuff because he had to, or hay would rot in the field along with the potatoes and corn. My grandfather drove trucks, and he fixed stuff because he had to or he would not get paid. My father delivered dairy goods to residential clients - milkman, though that doesn't cover all the products he delivered. he fixed stuff cause he still lived on a farm. Ive been a tech most of my working life.
I fixed small appliances etc, because I was too cheap to just buy a new one.
I service the brakes on both my vehicles, flush the cooling systems, replace broken stuff. I send them out for oil changes because that is a fluid I don't care to deal with, and if the brakes wear badly or aren't quite 'right', in it goes to be sure. The Saab is a real challenge. The Explorer is easy.
I fixed calculators, dictating machines, typewriters, various office equipment for a living.
I bought my first PC when I was 32, tore it apart repeatedly, backed up, restored, reformatted hard drives, messed with it for 4 years straight.
I took my first PC service call when I was 36. Installed my first Novell server 9 months later, on a Token-Ring network, courtesy of an insanely great presentation at a Networks Expo in Boston, and a nice man who taught is about T-R. No fear.
I 'graduated' through Novell to NT servers, Linux (from the book 'the Internet CD' - yes, Slackware 0.9), helped run the corporate ISP, did wireless backhauls, and all of it with little or no classroom training. I took three Novell courses, andf an abbreviated MCSE course. No certs, just working at it.
I loathed the Windows problems with viruses etc. that resulted in a wipe and format. It seemed incredibly lazy to me, but it was also the only way.
And I'll be fixing stuff because I cannot imagine being dependent on plumbers, electricians, roofers, HVAC techs, etc who have to charge too much money to cover the overhead.
I see kids all the time tossing stuff because they don't care to figure it out. My contemporaries regularly complain about the cost of getting things around the house fixed - I encourage them to learn some skills, it's not that hard.
But I WANT a 3D printer. Amazing. These are our future. Move manufacturing to the edge where it works.
Since we were discussing the invention of Ethernet, and you profess and demonstrate no knowledge of that, how about you pull your rock back over your hole. No point in learning about such things, eh?
Didn't the Ethernet specs solve some problems such as collision sensing, retrys, etc.?
Claiming Ethernet is 'just wiring' misses a big point. Without wiring, the Internet pretty much can't exist. Those three layers are essential. Before Ethernet, the options were a choice between awful and marginal.
Does no one remember IMPs?
I haven't broken another such device in over 12 years. Calm down. It's not your money. Sheesh.
Too late.
Maxepdition might have something. Thanks.
So the fix to a leaky faucet is to stop using the house.
More helpful advice. Thanks.
I would like to carry a decent 4" phone for handheld use, in the car, etc. And a 7" tablet that I could tether to the phone. But...
> The carriers are hell-bent on billing me a data service for both devices. I'm only going to use one at a time, and the total data cap I have is enough no matter how I use the devices.
> I have Sensation 4G, and I was planning on avoiding rooting it and living in the stock ROM world for once. Well, TMO took back tethering form the ICS ROM, so I avoided that. I know, if I do root it and install tethering, I'm violating their TOS, so heck.
>If my wife could get an iPhone from TMO, I would be happy with a shared plan, though I bet they don't let me share data with 2 phones and a tab. I get unlimited minutes, text, and 2G data for $25 less/mo than my wife gets 700 mins, unlim text, and 2G data from AT&T. That's the iPhone tax, worth about $600 more than my Sensation over a 2yr contract. We may see iPhones with TMO next year, but I'm not expecting it. More likely, my wife will give in and go Android.
So my solution is to tether a tab for when I want it, and carry a decent-sized phone when I don't. Both are useful in different ways.
If I have to, I might buy a supersized phone. Maybe.
Asking for a quad-core 2.3" phone is like asking for a compact dump truck. Too small to be truly useful, and too many drawbacks to justify it.
Performance, to me, means a rich display. Smallrich.
Is that why you don't buy a candy bar phone either?
Actually,it's not the service providers or any great conspiracy. You just have to pay a bit more to get what you want. There are a LOT of Android phones out there that are not subsidized by the carriers.The injustice there is that getting a prefered rate for a BYOD plan is hard>impossible.
Of course, if you want an Apple phone, you are locked in. Period.
1. I don't have a pocket big enough for a small phone.
2. One pocket has a wallet in it, the other usually change and keys. Back pkckets are where phones go to be bent and cracked.
3. Clips, belt pouches, etc work fine. Some are not noticeable, others are just glommy. Not as stupid as pants on the ground, sir.
4. A phablet or a phone *and* a tablet would be close to justifying my carrying a manbag. If I can find one that isn't too, um, well, you know.
5. Trust me on this, nothing about your phone, even riveting it to your forehead, is effective birth control. Just ain't. But it's fun to trot out that old saw, isn't it?
That's gonna work real well displaying GPS in the car.
Actually using your phone is the reason large screens are desireable. Using it less means you should have bought a smaller phone.
Hehe. I bought a Palm Pilot. Dropped it on concrete in a week. $100 for a new screen.
Dropped it again a week after it was fixed.
I had various Palms up to a Treo, never dropped another one. Of cours,e my wife dropped her 14 month old iPhone 4 last month, and is too proud to pay to fix it. I'll have to crack it open soon, it acts wierd...
Was the International the first modern SUV? No, Jeeps were in that form factor before that. Land Rovers similarly.
SUVs are not so much a modern invention as a modern success. Woodies were similarly useful, but not many out there. I drove wagons for work from 1978 on, such as Pintos (ugh) and Taurus wagons (useful). My Explorer now gets terrible gas mileage, but I can stuff a full-sized sofa in there, and my wife goes on monthly binges where we need more overstuffed furniture, or potting soil, or mass quantities. Often enough that it si useful
But my near-term plan is to replace the Saab (don't ask) that she won't drive with something reliable, and then get another something so we can park the Explorer and take it out to dinner or for schlepping. Or camping. Or bad weather.
I would be happy to convert it to a diesel-electric hybrid though. Makes sense, since cheaper batteries and a small, efficient diesel generator might work. I'll watch, and there are Explorer (or other SUV) bodies out there that would be great candidates. Might be worth it. I'll need the aux motor to run the A/C in Phoenix.
"(1) The 3-cylinder version gets around 85mpg on the highway"
What's the MPG when it's wrapped in a 2000 Explorer? A 2006 Excort ZX3? A 2011 Chrysler Sebring?
Such a meaningless statement that the engine gets a specific MPG. Mate it to a vehicle and report back. Stupid.
"developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules"
So Outlook can resume its role as the preferred vector for delivery of all manner of malware, viruses, etc. Activate this, sucka.
Sure. I'm wanting a big bite of that.
*whoosh*
Just another way to say "it just doesn't matter where you are on the Internet".
And apparently it doesn't much matter the quality of your work either, so long as you're doing something.
Feh.
Cox has had a 3 strikes policy regarding DCMA notices since 2008. Enforcement has been spotty, but they treat it as a TOC violation.
Wanna try it out and see if they still enforce it?
All my cards and such in one place.
Much easier for me to just wave my phone or whatever and it gets deducted. Just hope I choose the right 'card'.
And much, MUCH easier for the crooks to steal one thing, instead of going after each of my accounts one at time. One-stop shopping for them.
No, I'm not cynical, much.
Progress.