Another vote for rail lines. Cars are simply bad: dangerous, expensive, wasteful, and harmful to the environment. We're going to have to get a decent rail system in this country eventually, and the longer we wait the more expensive it will be to switch.
I'll just reiterate what other wise folks here have said. Use a simple, offsite, incremental backup solution that you can understand. Archiving data once on old floppies is clearly a bad idea, but making several backup copies on some DVDs or CDs stored at different locations simply solves the problem. That's all you need to do: no fancy online storage, no shell scripts, no IT consultants.
A lot can go wrong with backups, and since reliability is the whole point of backups in the first place, the simplest solution is usually the best. Sure floppies can be lost or corrupted, but at least the attorneys understand and control the backup process, can identify problems, and can verify their backups easily. Quality optical media would be a more convenient version of the same thing. Using 1 DVD per day (including weekends) would work out to about $75 per year. Having 365 redundant copies of your backups in multiple locations is probably more than enough for any small law firm.
This may make your head explode, but I don't have an internet connection on my gaming PC, or on any other PC in my home. That's right, I don't want to pay $50 per month plus a $100 set-up fee to Comcast so they can give me throttled bandwidth and generally crappy service that works when it feels like it. I can do all I need to do on the internet during my lunch break at work. I don't have a landline phone either, so dialup is not an option. Instead, I like to play single player games and use my $50 per month to go out and spend time with my friends in the real world. Yes, people like me still exist. And unfortunately, we will soon be unable to play games we have purchased legally. In a delicious twist, the only way I will ever be able to play Steam games is by obtaining illegally cracked versions. I am more than willing to pay the price of a game license. I think the coders deserve my money. I even think that game licenses are a bargain, all things considered. However, despite my yearning desire to pay Valve for their hard work, I will never be able to do so. **** you Valve. I wish I could give you money in exchange for the ability to play your games, but I literally can't, unless I want to pay $50/month for the rest of my life. That works out to about $30,000. You are stupid, and I am angry and I hate you.
"Symantec Corp. has admitted to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers..."
If we just gathered together enough matter, it would start fusing on its own through gravitational force. Using this method, we could create a gigantic fusion reactor in space, and then collect its radiation and convert it to electricity. It would be kind of like harnessing the solar power of the sun...oh wait...
It seems like the author is using the word "model" to mean "The structural design of a complex system," rather than "A simplified representation (usually mathematical) used to explain the workings of a real world system or event." What he's attempting to say is that mathematical models (what he refers as not-models) are all we need, and experiments are useless because we only need to know about correlation and not about causation. This is phenomenally idiotic, and assumes that "causation" is some Platonic, mystical idea of underlying truth rather than simply correlation + time. Once you get past his complete ignorance of the fundamental terms he's using to build his argument, he's saying that science can be done better with big computers and lots of data. Thank you for that fabulous insight. Alert the internet!
Typo squatting would be the real danger. Imagine if I registered ebay.copm, google.copm, amazon.copm, etc., thereby capturing all the traffic from perhaps the world's most common typo.
These laptops can probably do 80-90% of what you need your computer for. Leave THEM on all day for web browsing, email, music, etc., and only turn your high-power computers on when you really need them (read: for gaming). If you're running any home server processes that need to be online 24-7, these would be perfect for that as well. I'm thinking of using an old Pentium as my 24-hour computer/server, with an external HDD for my/home directory that can be shared with my dual-core AMD.
To what degree are Windows security strategies influenced by other operating systems or security companies? To what degree do you feel that you are innovating in the area of security, and to what degree do you feel that you are learning from others?
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Another vote for rail lines. Cars are simply bad: dangerous, expensive, wasteful, and harmful to the environment. We're going to have to get a decent rail system in this country eventually, and the longer we wait the more expensive it will be to switch.
I'll just reiterate what other wise folks here have said. Use a simple, offsite, incremental backup solution that you can understand. Archiving data once on old floppies is clearly a bad idea, but making several backup copies on some DVDs or CDs stored at different locations simply solves the problem. That's all you need to do: no fancy online storage, no shell scripts, no IT consultants.
A lot can go wrong with backups, and since reliability is the whole point of backups in the first place, the simplest solution is usually the best. Sure floppies can be lost or corrupted, but at least the attorneys understand and control the backup process, can identify problems, and can verify their backups easily. Quality optical media would be a more convenient version of the same thing. Using 1 DVD per day (including weekends) would work out to about $75 per year. Having 365 redundant copies of your backups in multiple locations is probably more than enough for any small law firm.
This may make your head explode, but I don't have an internet connection on my gaming PC, or on any other PC in my home. That's right, I don't want to pay $50 per month plus a $100 set-up fee to Comcast so they can give me throttled bandwidth and generally crappy service that works when it feels like it. I can do all I need to do on the internet during my lunch break at work. I don't have a landline phone either, so dialup is not an option. Instead, I like to play single player games and use my $50 per month to go out and spend time with my friends in the real world. Yes, people like me still exist. And unfortunately, we will soon be unable to play games we have purchased legally. In a delicious twist, the only way I will ever be able to play Steam games is by obtaining illegally cracked versions. I am more than willing to pay the price of a game license. I think the coders deserve my money. I even think that game licenses are a bargain, all things considered. However, despite my yearning desire to pay Valve for their hard work, I will never be able to do so. **** you Valve. I wish I could give you money in exchange for the ability to play your games, but I literally can't, unless I want to pay $50/month for the rest of my life. That works out to about $30,000. You are stupid, and I am angry and I hate you.
And, from the perspective of a different industry:
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
--Charles Mingus
Symantec Caught in Norton Rootkit Flap
"Symantec Corp. has admitted to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers..."
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Symantec-Caught-in-Norton-Rootkit-Flap/
At least I know I'm not the only person who's reading Slashdot while he should be studying for the February bar exam.
If people would just unplug their teenage girls for two hours a day, the country could save enough energy to power Chicago for a year!
If we just gathered together enough matter, it would start fusing on its own through gravitational force. Using this method, we could create a gigantic fusion reactor in space, and then collect its radiation and convert it to electricity. It would be kind of like harnessing the solar power of the sun...oh wait...
It seems like the author is using the word "model" to mean "The structural design of a complex system," rather than "A simplified representation (usually mathematical) used to explain the workings of a real world system or event." What he's attempting to say is that mathematical models (what he refers as not-models) are all we need, and experiments are useless because we only need to know about correlation and not about causation. This is phenomenally idiotic, and assumes that "causation" is some Platonic, mystical idea of underlying truth rather than simply correlation + time. Once you get past his complete ignorance of the fundamental terms he's using to build his argument, he's saying that science can be done better with big computers and lots of data. Thank you for that fabulous insight. Alert the internet!
Typo squatting would be the real danger. Imagine if I registered ebay.copm, google.copm, amazon.copm, etc., thereby capturing all the traffic from perhaps the world's most common typo.
... I'm disappointed that this is the only /. article tagged with 'bananascientists'.
who thought this was about China's belated reaction to online FPS gaming?
These laptops can probably do 80-90% of what you need your computer for. Leave THEM on all day for web browsing, email, music, etc., and only turn your high-power computers on when you really need them (read: for gaming). If you're running any home server processes that need to be online 24-7, these would be perfect for that as well. I'm thinking of using an old Pentium as my 24-hour computer/server, with an external HDD for my /home directory that can be shared with my dual-core AMD.
The Worms series is full of great hotseat games that can be played on a single computer. My girlfriend and I both love Worms Armageddon.
Ditto here, I played that one all the way through last year. Still just as good as ever, one of the best games ever made.
To what degree are Windows security strategies influenced by other operating systems or security companies? To what degree do you feel that you are innovating in the area of security, and to what degree do you feel that you are learning from others?