If you look at the picture in the article (it's automobile-related, so I looked) and think that it would survive in Boston traffic, you've never driven in Boston. A "bumper tap" in Boston is a friendly warning - maybe even a greeting. In Boston, with Massachusetts laws as they are, anything from behind the B-pillar (driver's side door) is not your fault - so that's just ignored. In Boston, if someone hits your car and you give them the finger - they will hit you again.
The roads were (really - not kidding) cow paths. Cars are battering rams. They're not actually angry, it's just how they are. They're not so much in a rush - they just want to be faster then *you.* If they are not faster than you, they might hit you to slow you down, that way they can pass - and give you the finger. I've never been to church in Boston but I suspect that mass starts with, "Fuck you and ya fuckin' mothah, you fuckin' cock suckin' fahgot!"
Why? I have no idea but I have, in fact, spent a lot of time driving in Boston. It is the only place where I have been walking back to my car and seen someone swerve to hit it. If you see a car with no dents in Boston, it's new. Probably, it is less than a week old.
You know how the movies will have the cops needlessly follow the getaway car onto the curb? Yeah, that happens in Boston - and it doesn't even make the nightly news. No, that's not a joke. Why? Because, fuck you, that's why. No, I don't get it either but welcome to Boston, ya fuckin' shit stain. (No offense, in fact - that's a friendly greeting in Boston.)
That car's gonna last like two minutes on Mass Ave. You take that over near Highland Ave, Fort Ave, Beech Glen St? I give it a week.
I don't actually store much of anything on my computer(s) any more. Not really. I have something between a SAN and a NAS, depending on how you look at it and how you approach it. Everything gets stored there, replicated, and sent out in various backup schemes. I don't keep a whole lot on the drive that's actually in the computer. I can always pull an image back to play with it. I've got access to huge amounts of storage (TB after TB - in large disk arrays). It's sort of like cloud storage but it's under my control. I even have a backup network connection to get in via remote.
There's a few ways to access, from SSH to VNC. I don't even care if I've got an OS installed, I can just as easily run a Live USB and it takes like five minutes to get it configured enough to use it well enough. From there, I just VNC into something and do my "work" there. I load up a VM via remote to go along with it - toss it onto a separate virtual desktop, and things like that. I haven't stored any data locally in a long time.
Well, not entirely accurate. There's a few unimportant things held locally. It's stuff I don't really care about, need access to from remote, can afford to lose, or I'm working on at present.
I don't know when the change happened and it wasn't an intentional change. I just stopped storing stuff locally more and more. I changed the download location to prompt and just started saving stuff right over the network. I started using VMs more and more and wanted to have access to stuff from outside the VM so stuff got saved on a networked share. I started saving "work" that I'd done to shares across the network, putting them in different spots, and things like that. It wasn't a plan - I didn't plan on stopping the local storage. It just kind of happened and it turns out to be pretty nice. My ISP lets me run a server so I can connect in a variety of ways. I've been pretty happy with it.
Latin is the only one I'm familiar with and it's unfair to say that it hasn't changed but I guess it's true. It hasn't really changed but we've bastardized the hell out of to make new words. It's also a dead language, no longer used to communicate. Some ritual use of it is still seen but nobody writes in it, nobody speaks it, and nobody is doing anything to maintain it as a language in and of itself. However, we're happy as hell to bastardize it and make words up with what might have been justifiable Latin back in the day.
So, using that language, I'm still not sure. I think if someone from ancient Rome were here today - they'd probably be a bit confused at some of the ways we use Latin. I suppose we might understand them.
Oddly, I took Latin for four years and I can actually sorta, kinda, maybe read Italian and it was a great help when I started learning Spanish. (I'm sort of fluent in Spanish, not quite but damned close. Sometimes I have to guess a word but it's usually close enough and the gist is there.) But, just having learned Latin means that I can actually read (and I can confirm that I do not speak it) Italian well enough to get the gist of it. I often don't even use a machine translation if I come across it. There's some variations to Spanish and I can generally read those well enough, even if I'm not certain and wouldn't try to speak them. I can kind of get some Portuguese but not nearly as much as I can with Italian.
At any rate, I'm not a linguist so I'll defer. It does seem that Latin's changed but a more accurate statement would be how we use it has changed. I think the point I was getting at was that they're probably (and I do not know) really not the same languages that they were 1000 years ago. They might not even be the same languages they were 500, 250, or even 100 years ago. Living languages evolve and dead languages aren't really in "use" so much. 'Tis not a big deal or anything, just not entirely clear - at least not in my head.
I'd start with a hex editor and find out if I could figure out the file type. That might actually be just enough to read it but, if not, I might be able to go from there and see what I find. I'd try reading it in plain text too, that often has an indicator as to the file type. Some things have the equivalent to a magic bit, even if not expressly for the same reason.
It should't be *too* bad, really. It's already being given to me so it's not like I have to worry about figuring out the file system, byte size, track(s), sectors, or things like that. Yeah, I'd probably be able to figure a little out and then work from there. No guarantees of course, as I'm assuming you picked a file type that you know would be difficult. However, I'd give it a good ol' College Try. (Silly expression, really. Trying hard is not necessarily a collegiate trait.)
Err... Did you have a specific file in mind? 'Cause it just might be possible and probably not too difficult seeing as you've already got the file retrieved from the storage mechanism. One of the hardest parts is figuring out old storage formats. Some of those are kind of odd, proprietary, and entirely undocumented - at least in public. If it's just a plain file that you created, the data might be easy enough to pull out of it. It probably won't be pretty but it *might* be recoverable.
Hell, I'm not even an expert in the field. I'm sure there's even better ways to go about it. Worst case scenario - I'd find the appropriate old computer with the appropriate software and recover it that way. I might have to write something to convert it to a new file format and then some sort of shim to export the data into that new format but that's possibly doable.
I'm pretty sure you can find lots of people here who are not only good at it but have done similar things. I've seen comments where people have recounted similar tales.
I suppose, it probably does seem a bit odd but I'm sort of fluent in Ebonics. In fact, there are quite a few dialects. One of these days, I'll have to see if there are some formal studies and some literature about the dialects of American English in use. Not too many years ago, I actually had to translate for a female traveling companion - and we were just in Louisiana.
I'm not a linguist but aren't those languages no longer the same? They're similar, as far as I understand it, but they're not really the same and the reason that we're able to understand them as well as we are is because we've got works that show them as they evolve. I stress that I am not an expert but that was how I understood it. They might be technically that old but the old version is very different from what is in use today.
I was always kind of baffled by the people who'd buy just the driver's side airbag back before they were standard on both sides. "No hon, you're just a passenger. I need the added safety."
I'm usually not the type to say this sort of thing, so take it with a grain or salt or consider it an oddity... But...
Err... If you can't really turn it off and be certain about it, is it actually *your* phone? I mean, yeah, you own it and all that but do you? You don't control it.
It's like the Win 10 telemetry data. Now, if I did use Windows (and I do not) then I'd just happily give them the telemetry data - if they asked. I don't mind. I don't mind in the least - in fact, I'd be glad they were collecting it as they'd be getting my data and they'd be more likely to consider my needs. But, they don't really let you turn it off unless you're using the enterprise version. That's still okay - sort of. Except, in my understanding, they have the setting set as "Off." Off only means minimal, in this case. Off means off - in my book. That'd piss me off. If I can't trust off (even if I might opt to leave it on) then what can I trust?
So, I usually think of these sorts of things as hyperbolic and FUD but, in this case, if you can't turn the device off then is it your device? Do you really own it if you can't be sure of the power-state? I do not own, nor will I probably ever own, a cell phone that I can't turn off. I don't actually have much to hide or any great secrets. No nation-state wants my information, I don't have any skeletons in the closet, I don't have any secret business plans. I still want off to mean off and for that to mean completely off and under my control.
While you did learn *a* lesson, I'm not so sure you learned the prudent lesson. The lesson is, don't be a dumbass when you're caught. The "yes sir" and "no sir" things work really well, as does being courteous. I've been driving for over 40 years and have zero moving violations on my record, zero at-fault accidents, and no sitting violations in well over 20 years.
I am not white. I am not always driving a respectable car - by their standards. Some of them are loud, fast, or even a little scary looking to some folks.
I have my paperwork ready, my car is clean, and I am polite and do not bother trying to lie. "Sir, I understand and I'm not exactly sure how fast I was going but it was a little faster than it probably should have been. I was in a hurry, not thinking about it, and the road looked clear so I figured it would be safe." Though, I must admit, I've not actually been pulled over in a long time now. I'm not even sure when the last time was? It has probably been close to ten years since I've been stopped.
And no, no I don't drive slow. I don't speed a hell of a lot when I'm around others. At least I don't normally speed that much. I'm usually ten over, at the most. However, between DC and Florida I lit it up - just recently. I didn't want to waste a night and I wanted to get to the panhandle. So, I did some very absurd speeding in the open areas of the 95 corridor. It didn't help. We ended up stopping in GA because we decided to fart around there for a while.
At any rate, it's not "don't get caught." Not really. You can't always control that. You've got to get lucky every time, they've only got to get lucky once. Instead, it's treat them like big, dumb, herd animals and bite your tongue and pretend you're giving them respect (even if you have to fake it - but don't overdo it) and attention. Look them straight in the eye but don't stare, move slowly and cautiously, never turn your back, speak clear and loud - but not yelling, do not use aggressive behavior, if you smile - do not show your teeth as that's seen as a threat, and be firm but not authoritative. They're dumb herd animals and often have peers with which to stampede. Keep that in mind and act accordingly.
I'll chime in... First, kids are pretty resilient so it's unlikely that they're going to end up "messed up." However, I might have done something like this - with their knowledge and if I felt that it was necessary. I can't rule it out and I don't see any reason to be dishonest with you or with myself. However, I'd have never considered putting it in their vehicle. Ever.
So, it's almost meaningless as my two kids had earned their own cars by the time they were old enough to drive. No, not given a car. I might have a couple of dollars but I will not have irresponsible kids. They earned their vehicles. I did, later, give my son one of my old cars and I've since bought my daughter a new car (quite recently, actually) but they paid for their first cars with money they earned. I felt that was important at the time, I still feel comfortable with that choice.
That said, I didn't make it a habit to go through their stuff and things like that. Each one of 'em had a rather large safe in their room. It was theirs and I was not allowed in it. I had neither key nor combination. Anything not in that safe, I was privy to access at any time I wanted. I'd have told them if I were going to do so or if I had done so. I imagine I'd have given them the chance to come clean before I went through their room. They know I worked as an Escort/Chaser in a detention facility so they probably would have just assumed I'd find it and then come clean.
However, I never actually searched their rooms really. At least not that I can recall. I did go in and retrieve my missing stuff that they'd "borrowed." I did go in and check various things like windows being closed and whatnot. Mostly, the kids were pretty good. They kept their shit cleaned up, did their own laundry, split the chores, and behaved like reasonable kids. They had their faults, and still do, but they're mostly good people.
I hate to say this but I'm kind of fond of the truth. To answer your question, yes - or, quite probably, yes. Crime is trending down and has been for years. Violent crime is down, property crime is down, crimes against children are down, and all that.
Now, it's important to remember that correlation doesn't equal causation but - it's also important to point out that there's probably some causation that's attributed to all these advances in monitoring. It's well known, with lots of data, that we behave differently when we believe we're being watched.
Just pull out your phone, open the GPS, and save the location. It's usually accurate enough to find your car again when you're coming out of a concert late at night and in the middle of a bunch of other people. It comes in handy.
And to add to this -- not just tested the restore BUT actually have a plan for recovery, that goes beyond just the testing.
How are you going to retrieve data from a remote location? What processes will you use to mitigate an attack during recovery? What known-clean can you put online to retrieve patches in the case of malware/compromise? Disparate networks to ensure clean recovery?
Things like that. It needn't be written down, but it should be planned out. If it's a business, it should be written down and a policy. At home, you can be more relaxed and not have it set in stone. I keep certain recovery options at the OS level, store almost no data locally, and often don't even use an installed OS but that's just because I like to play. (When you've got this much RAM, you can do that.) I also like images from VMs. I keep things located all over the place - including multiple on-site locations and disparate physical locations.
Like you folks mentioned... I lost data once. It was extremely flaky and absolutely absurd and infuriating. I'm still not entirely sure how it happened but a very, very close lightning strike hit and all magnetic media was gone. Not even the MBR remained. Drives not powered on were gone. Some would not work, even after reformat. I've no idea the how or why (I suspect EMP) but it was infuriating. I had *some* at a different location and am very fortunate that it was mostly my personal data and wasn't at my office. The following Monday, however, some serious discussions were had and we had a whole new backup plan and all the rest within a week. We did some testing and I'd say that we were fully set within six months but we were already pushing data out (and it was a lot of data) as well as buying more tapes and shipping them to a nearby storage unit before we moved further out with it.
They weren't voted down (according to the data given - the pop-up shows no history when you click on it). AC posts start at 0 by default. Logged in users start at 1. People with Excellent Karma can start at 2 if they want but most of us keep that turned off. It's not really much of a metric to determine quality, at that level, but it's a way to filter out AC posts as some people are disinclined to read those posts. You can change your filter settings to -1 (the lowest of the low and where I prefer to read) if you want.
To add to the above; Not just backups but *verified* backups *and* a recovery plan. A decent backup strategy should include several things including value, location, and recovery speed. In the days of cheap hardware and cheap bandwidth, it's really silly to rely on a backup that's just an external disk or two in your house. Put box up at a friend's and host one for them.
Err... As mentioned before, I'm kind of anal about backups. I have all but the verification pretty well automated. I can automate the verification but I can't automate it with a level of confidence that matches my paranoia. So, I sometimes (not always) do manual verification including sometimes slapping the image right back on the box and ensuring it works. So far, so good. I do multiple stages to disparate locations with varied values depending on the type of data.
Oddly enough, you were saying that same thing when XP had activation. Yet, 15 years later I'm supposed to believe that you're going to finally say that enough is enough, move to a new OS, and forgo all things Microsoft... All evidence, include the uptick on the various forums and help sites (at which I'm an active member) tells me that the numbers are pretty much on par with, maybe slightly less, the past.
Sorry, but no... I don't believe it. The desktop OS market will remain solidly in MS grips. You can howl and pretend all you want but you'll still be playing your games on Windows. It's sad, really. For starters, nobody's fooling anyone. More importantly, it's tit-easy to use Linux these days. It literally, "just works."
Yeah and if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle. You're reaching for something... Why not just say it instead of beating around the bush and attempting to make false equivalents?
No, I do not disbelieve the stated numbers. No, I am not racist.
But, nothing that person said is indicative of any racist beliefs. You do not have to be racist to disbelieve the stats.
In short, you're an idiot. They *might* be racist. They've given you no reason to believe they're racist. You reached that conclusion on your own and without evidence. I'd suggest that such makes you more prejudicial than the other person has given us cause to believe they are.
That's not really accurate. I forget the official's name but it was one lone government official (elected - probably not going to be in office after the upcoming elections) said that it should be against the law. As far as I know, it was never proposed as a law, never voted on, and mostly just pissed people off.
I do not know the exact numbers and nobody does BUT it's not remiss to point out that quite a few POWs died at the hands of the USSR. The numbers for that vary quite a bit but you can see the general thoughts on that particular subject by clicking this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Shared Source Initiative - you too can see the source code for Windows. You can't do much with it but you can see it. You need to sign an NDA, give them a reason, and then tell them what you want to see. I've used, "Because I'm curious." You've been able to do this for about 15 years now. Just Google "Shared Source Initiative." There's even a Wikipedia article on it.
You guys say this every time a new version of Windows comes out. We see a slight uptick in questions in the forums. It dies down after about six months to a year. It's actually less of an uptick this time than I've noticed in the past.
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If you look at the picture in the article (it's automobile-related, so I looked) and think that it would survive in Boston traffic, you've never driven in Boston. A "bumper tap" in Boston is a friendly warning - maybe even a greeting. In Boston, with Massachusetts laws as they are, anything from behind the B-pillar (driver's side door) is not your fault - so that's just ignored. In Boston, if someone hits your car and you give them the finger - they will hit you again.
The roads were (really - not kidding) cow paths. Cars are battering rams. They're not actually angry, it's just how they are. They're not so much in a rush - they just want to be faster then *you.* If they are not faster than you, they might hit you to slow you down, that way they can pass - and give you the finger. I've never been to church in Boston but I suspect that mass starts with, "Fuck you and ya fuckin' mothah, you fuckin' cock suckin' fahgot!"
Why? I have no idea but I have, in fact, spent a lot of time driving in Boston. It is the only place where I have been walking back to my car and seen someone swerve to hit it. If you see a car with no dents in Boston, it's new. Probably, it is less than a week old.
You know how the movies will have the cops needlessly follow the getaway car onto the curb? Yeah, that happens in Boston - and it doesn't even make the nightly news. No, that's not a joke. Why? Because, fuck you, that's why. No, I don't get it either but welcome to Boston, ya fuckin' shit stain. (No offense, in fact - that's a friendly greeting in Boston.)
That car's gonna last like two minutes on Mass Ave. You take that over near Highland Ave, Fort Ave, Beech Glen St? I give it a week.
Please tell me that you don't actually believe that to be true? I mean, "everything?" Seriously? Do you have a rather shiny hat or something?
I don't actually store much of anything on my computer(s) any more. Not really. I have something between a SAN and a NAS, depending on how you look at it and how you approach it. Everything gets stored there, replicated, and sent out in various backup schemes. I don't keep a whole lot on the drive that's actually in the computer. I can always pull an image back to play with it. I've got access to huge amounts of storage (TB after TB - in large disk arrays). It's sort of like cloud storage but it's under my control. I even have a backup network connection to get in via remote.
There's a few ways to access, from SSH to VNC. I don't even care if I've got an OS installed, I can just as easily run a Live USB and it takes like five minutes to get it configured enough to use it well enough. From there, I just VNC into something and do my "work" there. I load up a VM via remote to go along with it - toss it onto a separate virtual desktop, and things like that. I haven't stored any data locally in a long time.
Well, not entirely accurate. There's a few unimportant things held locally. It's stuff I don't really care about, need access to from remote, can afford to lose, or I'm working on at present.
I don't know when the change happened and it wasn't an intentional change. I just stopped storing stuff locally more and more. I changed the download location to prompt and just started saving stuff right over the network. I started using VMs more and more and wanted to have access to stuff from outside the VM so stuff got saved on a networked share. I started saving "work" that I'd done to shares across the network, putting them in different spots, and things like that. It wasn't a plan - I didn't plan on stopping the local storage. It just kind of happened and it turns out to be pretty nice. My ISP lets me run a server so I can connect in a variety of ways. I've been pretty happy with it.
Latin is the only one I'm familiar with and it's unfair to say that it hasn't changed but I guess it's true. It hasn't really changed but we've bastardized the hell out of to make new words. It's also a dead language, no longer used to communicate. Some ritual use of it is still seen but nobody writes in it, nobody speaks it, and nobody is doing anything to maintain it as a language in and of itself. However, we're happy as hell to bastardize it and make words up with what might have been justifiable Latin back in the day.
So, using that language, I'm still not sure. I think if someone from ancient Rome were here today - they'd probably be a bit confused at some of the ways we use Latin. I suppose we might understand them.
Oddly, I took Latin for four years and I can actually sorta, kinda, maybe read Italian and it was a great help when I started learning Spanish. (I'm sort of fluent in Spanish, not quite but damned close. Sometimes I have to guess a word but it's usually close enough and the gist is there.) But, just having learned Latin means that I can actually read (and I can confirm that I do not speak it) Italian well enough to get the gist of it. I often don't even use a machine translation if I come across it. There's some variations to Spanish and I can generally read those well enough, even if I'm not certain and wouldn't try to speak them. I can kind of get some Portuguese but not nearly as much as I can with Italian.
At any rate, I'm not a linguist so I'll defer. It does seem that Latin's changed but a more accurate statement would be how we use it has changed. I think the point I was getting at was that they're probably (and I do not know) really not the same languages that they were 1000 years ago. They might not even be the same languages they were 500, 250, or even 100 years ago. Living languages evolve and dead languages aren't really in "use" so much. 'Tis not a big deal or anything, just not entirely clear - at least not in my head.
I'd start with a hex editor and find out if I could figure out the file type. That might actually be just enough to read it but, if not, I might be able to go from there and see what I find. I'd try reading it in plain text too, that often has an indicator as to the file type. Some things have the equivalent to a magic bit, even if not expressly for the same reason.
It should't be *too* bad, really. It's already being given to me so it's not like I have to worry about figuring out the file system, byte size, track(s), sectors, or things like that. Yeah, I'd probably be able to figure a little out and then work from there. No guarantees of course, as I'm assuming you picked a file type that you know would be difficult. However, I'd give it a good ol' College Try. (Silly expression, really. Trying hard is not necessarily a collegiate trait.)
Err... Did you have a specific file in mind? 'Cause it just might be possible and probably not too difficult seeing as you've already got the file retrieved from the storage mechanism. One of the hardest parts is figuring out old storage formats. Some of those are kind of odd, proprietary, and entirely undocumented - at least in public. If it's just a plain file that you created, the data might be easy enough to pull out of it. It probably won't be pretty but it *might* be recoverable.
Hell, I'm not even an expert in the field. I'm sure there's even better ways to go about it. Worst case scenario - I'd find the appropriate old computer with the appropriate software and recover it that way. I might have to write something to convert it to a new file format and then some sort of shim to export the data into that new format but that's possibly doable.
I'm pretty sure you can find lots of people here who are not only good at it but have done similar things. I've seen comments where people have recounted similar tales.
Word dawg. I don't be trippin' yo. You feel me?
I suppose, it probably does seem a bit odd but I'm sort of fluent in Ebonics. In fact, there are quite a few dialects. One of these days, I'll have to see if there are some formal studies and some literature about the dialects of American English in use. Not too many years ago, I actually had to translate for a female traveling companion - and we were just in Louisiana.
I'm not a linguist but aren't those languages no longer the same? They're similar, as far as I understand it, but they're not really the same and the reason that we're able to understand them as well as we are is because we've got works that show them as they evolve. I stress that I am not an expert but that was how I understood it. They might be technically that old but the old version is very different from what is in use today.
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I was always kind of baffled by the people who'd buy just the driver's side airbag back before they were standard on both sides. "No hon, you're just a passenger. I need the added safety."
I'm usually not the type to say this sort of thing, so take it with a grain or salt or consider it an oddity... But...
Err... If you can't really turn it off and be certain about it, is it actually *your* phone? I mean, yeah, you own it and all that but do you? You don't control it.
It's like the Win 10 telemetry data. Now, if I did use Windows (and I do not) then I'd just happily give them the telemetry data - if they asked. I don't mind. I don't mind in the least - in fact, I'd be glad they were collecting it as they'd be getting my data and they'd be more likely to consider my needs. But, they don't really let you turn it off unless you're using the enterprise version. That's still okay - sort of. Except, in my understanding, they have the setting set as "Off." Off only means minimal, in this case. Off means off - in my book. That'd piss me off. If I can't trust off (even if I might opt to leave it on) then what can I trust?
So, I usually think of these sorts of things as hyperbolic and FUD but, in this case, if you can't turn the device off then is it your device? Do you really own it if you can't be sure of the power-state? I do not own, nor will I probably ever own, a cell phone that I can't turn off. I don't actually have much to hide or any great secrets. No nation-state wants my information, I don't have any skeletons in the closet, I don't have any secret business plans. I still want off to mean off and for that to mean completely off and under my control.
While you did learn *a* lesson, I'm not so sure you learned the prudent lesson. The lesson is, don't be a dumbass when you're caught. The "yes sir" and "no sir" things work really well, as does being courteous. I've been driving for over 40 years and have zero moving violations on my record, zero at-fault accidents, and no sitting violations in well over 20 years.
I am not white. I am not always driving a respectable car - by their standards. Some of them are loud, fast, or even a little scary looking to some folks.
I have my paperwork ready, my car is clean, and I am polite and do not bother trying to lie. "Sir, I understand and I'm not exactly sure how fast I was going but it was a little faster than it probably should have been. I was in a hurry, not thinking about it, and the road looked clear so I figured it would be safe." Though, I must admit, I've not actually been pulled over in a long time now. I'm not even sure when the last time was? It has probably been close to ten years since I've been stopped.
And no, no I don't drive slow. I don't speed a hell of a lot when I'm around others. At least I don't normally speed that much. I'm usually ten over, at the most. However, between DC and Florida I lit it up - just recently. I didn't want to waste a night and I wanted to get to the panhandle. So, I did some very absurd speeding in the open areas of the 95 corridor. It didn't help. We ended up stopping in GA because we decided to fart around there for a while.
At any rate, it's not "don't get caught." Not really. You can't always control that. You've got to get lucky every time, they've only got to get lucky once. Instead, it's treat them like big, dumb, herd animals and bite your tongue and pretend you're giving them respect (even if you have to fake it - but don't overdo it) and attention. Look them straight in the eye but don't stare, move slowly and cautiously, never turn your back, speak clear and loud - but not yelling, do not use aggressive behavior, if you smile - do not show your teeth as that's seen as a threat, and be firm but not authoritative. They're dumb herd animals and often have peers with which to stampede. Keep that in mind and act accordingly.
I'll chime in... First, kids are pretty resilient so it's unlikely that they're going to end up "messed up." However, I might have done something like this - with their knowledge and if I felt that it was necessary. I can't rule it out and I don't see any reason to be dishonest with you or with myself. However, I'd have never considered putting it in their vehicle. Ever.
So, it's almost meaningless as my two kids had earned their own cars by the time they were old enough to drive. No, not given a car. I might have a couple of dollars but I will not have irresponsible kids. They earned their vehicles. I did, later, give my son one of my old cars and I've since bought my daughter a new car (quite recently, actually) but they paid for their first cars with money they earned. I felt that was important at the time, I still feel comfortable with that choice.
That said, I didn't make it a habit to go through their stuff and things like that. Each one of 'em had a rather large safe in their room. It was theirs and I was not allowed in it. I had neither key nor combination. Anything not in that safe, I was privy to access at any time I wanted. I'd have told them if I were going to do so or if I had done so. I imagine I'd have given them the chance to come clean before I went through their room. They know I worked as an Escort/Chaser in a detention facility so they probably would have just assumed I'd find it and then come clean.
However, I never actually searched their rooms really. At least not that I can recall. I did go in and retrieve my missing stuff that they'd "borrowed." I did go in and check various things like windows being closed and whatnot. Mostly, the kids were pretty good. They kept their shit cleaned up, did their own laundry, split the chores, and behaved like reasonable kids. They had their faults, and still do, but they're mostly good people.
I hate to say this but I'm kind of fond of the truth. To answer your question, yes - or, quite probably, yes. Crime is trending down and has been for years. Violent crime is down, property crime is down, crimes against children are down, and all that.
Now, it's important to remember that correlation doesn't equal causation but - it's also important to point out that there's probably some causation that's attributed to all these advances in monitoring. It's well known, with lots of data, that we behave differently when we believe we're being watched.
Just pull out your phone, open the GPS, and save the location. It's usually accurate enough to find your car again when you're coming out of a concert late at night and in the middle of a bunch of other people. It comes in handy.
And to add to this -- not just tested the restore BUT actually have a plan for recovery, that goes beyond just the testing.
How are you going to retrieve data from a remote location?
What processes will you use to mitigate an attack during recovery?
What known-clean can you put online to retrieve patches in the case of malware/compromise?
Disparate networks to ensure clean recovery?
Things like that. It needn't be written down, but it should be planned out. If it's a business, it should be written down and a policy. At home, you can be more relaxed and not have it set in stone. I keep certain recovery options at the OS level, store almost no data locally, and often don't even use an installed OS but that's just because I like to play. (When you've got this much RAM, you can do that.) I also like images from VMs. I keep things located all over the place - including multiple on-site locations and disparate physical locations.
Like you folks mentioned... I lost data once. It was extremely flaky and absolutely absurd and infuriating. I'm still not entirely sure how it happened but a very, very close lightning strike hit and all magnetic media was gone. Not even the MBR remained. Drives not powered on were gone. Some would not work, even after reformat. I've no idea the how or why (I suspect EMP) but it was infuriating. I had *some* at a different location and am very fortunate that it was mostly my personal data and wasn't at my office. The following Monday, however, some serious discussions were had and we had a whole new backup plan and all the rest within a week. We did some testing and I'd say that we were fully set within six months but we were already pushing data out (and it was a lot of data) as well as buying more tapes and shipping them to a nearby storage unit before we moved further out with it.
Never again.
Just an FYI...
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To add to the above; Not just backups but *verified* backups *and* a recovery plan. A decent backup strategy should include several things including value, location, and recovery speed. In the days of cheap hardware and cheap bandwidth, it's really silly to rely on a backup that's just an external disk or two in your house. Put box up at a friend's and host one for them.
Err... As mentioned before, I'm kind of anal about backups. I have all but the verification pretty well automated. I can automate the verification but I can't automate it with a level of confidence that matches my paranoia. So, I sometimes (not always) do manual verification including sometimes slapping the image right back on the box and ensuring it works. So far, so good. I do multiple stages to disparate locations with varied values depending on the type of data.
Oddly enough, you were saying that same thing when XP had activation. Yet, 15 years later I'm supposed to believe that you're going to finally say that enough is enough, move to a new OS, and forgo all things Microsoft... All evidence, include the uptick on the various forums and help sites (at which I'm an active member) tells me that the numbers are pretty much on par with, maybe slightly less, the past.
Sorry, but no... I don't believe it. The desktop OS market will remain solidly in MS grips. You can howl and pretend all you want but you'll still be playing your games on Windows. It's sad, really. For starters, nobody's fooling anyone. More importantly, it's tit-easy to use Linux these days. It literally, "just works."
Yeah and if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle. You're reaching for something... Why not just say it instead of beating around the bush and attempting to make false equivalents?
Well... This is a lovely place to be in.
No, I do not disbelieve the stated numbers. No, I am not racist.
But, nothing that person said is indicative of any racist beliefs. You do not have to be racist to disbelieve the stats.
In short, you're an idiot. They *might* be racist. They've given you no reason to believe they're racist. You reached that conclusion on your own and without evidence. I'd suggest that such makes you more prejudicial than the other person has given us cause to believe they are.
That's not really accurate. I forget the official's name but it was one lone government official (elected - probably not going to be in office after the upcoming elections) said that it should be against the law. As far as I know, it was never proposed as a law, never voted on, and mostly just pissed people off.
I do not know the exact numbers and nobody does BUT it's not remiss to point out that quite a few POWs died at the hands of the USSR. The numbers for that vary quite a bit but you can see the general thoughts on that particular subject by clicking this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Shared Source Initiative - you too can see the source code for Windows. You can't do much with it but you can see it. You need to sign an NDA, give them a reason, and then tell them what you want to see. I've used, "Because I'm curious." You've been able to do this for about 15 years now. Just Google "Shared Source Initiative." There's even a Wikipedia article on it.
You guys say this every time a new version of Windows comes out. We see a slight uptick in questions in the forums. It dies down after about six months to a year. It's actually less of an uptick this time than I've noticed in the past.