There are some excellent additional comments threaded below his. If you have time and are actually interested in learning more about these things (as well as the proposed ideas that some have come up with) then the link is right there for you.
Do not worry. Someone will be along shortly to tell you that it is attitudes like your's that prevent women from applying to the tech jobs in the first place. Me? I understand the difference between something said in jest here and something said in a work environment. Though I may have now preempted the aggressive comment(s).
Can an intrusion result in lost data that would violate your attorney-client privileges? If so are there legal repercussions for that? If the answer is yes, to either one, then you may want someone to take a look at it.
I hope it improves there. I have ulterior motives but I have altruistic motives as well. The place, I have only been there once since the mid 1990s, has really fallen apart. The reason I went there was to finish a business deal that I have a small hope for. I bought eight adjoining lots and had the houses (they were uninhabitable and condemned) and had them razed. The cost was trivial compared to the potential reward if Detroit ever gets its feet back under it. So, yes, I have a financial interest in the improvement of Detroit but it is altruistic as well. The only place I have seen worse living conditions, in the United States, is in New Orleans. There are whole swaths of that city that need to be cleaned up - still.
I guess that is a good thing. In a way. We do not really need much more compute power in the home. This system is *just* an 8 core with 16 GB of RAM. (I once paid $400 USD for a whopping 4 MB of RAM. It was EDO as I recall.) I actually have a new computer sitting in the box, it is twice as fast (theoretically) as it has 16 cores with 32 GB of RAM. I have not dug it out to even turn it on, I have not taken the time to dig out a mouse, keyboard, and monitor for it.
It was on sale at NewEgg recently and I have some impulse issues.
I simply do not need a faster computer. This one does everything I need it to and the effort of configuring that computer just hasn't been worth it yet. Hell, I still own (way too many) computers that are slower than my cell phone by a huge margin. (Who doesn't want to fire up an old TRS-80 and play Zork? Nobody, that's who.) I guess my point is that it is good that it is slowing down - maybe people will hold onto their hardware longer and less will end up in landfills or my basement. Or my attic. Or my den. I am sure you get the idea.
I also see a lot of advancement in the GPU realm. Those seem to be just modified CPUs stuffed onto them so I am not sure that would count for anything either. That too, for my needs, has reached a tipping point where I can not justify getting bleeding edge hardware any more. The onboard stuff suits my needs just fine these days, I can not possibly (personally) need two GPUs slaved together and each with more power than my favorite laptop. If I were not retired I would have a need for these things, especially in lowering the costs in the server room. From what I can tell I would have been able to drop the Sun offerings and simply go with a cluster of gaming PCs though I would probably have to give up the capacity to hotswap components. Then again, with a cluster there is probably a failover that I am not thinking of (or unaware of) that would enable me to take the entire machine offline and simply replace it with distributed storage being a wise option. The savings, right there by itself, would have been enough to rebuild the server room to better optimize the temperature management. Hell, I could have even afforded to give everyone a raise probably - Sun is expensive but damned good equipment.
Anyhow, add to that, we are (well, not me) all returning to the idea of the dumb terminal. We finally have enough compute power on our desks, laps, and phones that we certainly do not need to but the trend seems to be putting everything online and accessing it over the network just like the dumb terminals of yore. I haven't checked but I would not be surprised to see Wyse entering the consumer market. They might as well. That is all many people are doing with their devices now.
Now that would have pissed me off but I have never had that happen. I did have some issues once when I rented a small apartment and had to run around to catch the landlord to get permission for them to do the install in case they had to drill some holes. They did not have to drill any holes but wanted permission preemptively.
I only stayed at the apartment for maybe a week total every month, maybe a bit more in the winter and a bit less in the summer. It was in a town that actually has stores, some amusement, a college, and bars and I was a heavy drinker at the time. My home is about an hour and a half away (during good weather) so the middling town between here and there does not really meet my needs and is still about half the distance it is to Farmington.
I had to preemptively get permission for cable to be installed as well. They were certain they had never installed cable in that apartment. I pointed out that there was a cable line right there in the wall - two even, but they did not listen and insisted I get the form filled out. Fortunately they were both able to email the forms to me and I was able to print them out and then fax them back.
The good news is that it was a static IP address so I had a box that I would VNC into there and could have it do stuff like download large files. Getting DSL (I used to be on satellite then a radio based wireless connection) was a chore. I was about three miles shy of getting DSL and there are only six other houses in this unincorporated township. The company was pretty decent but I had to pay for a "central office" (I believe that is what they called it - it is just a box on the side of the road) and then to upgrade the line. My neighbor chipped in and had the line extended to his place but it took about six months to get that done and was very expensive. I knew things like that were expensive (I actually had priced an ISDN option) but I had no idea that it was *that* pricey. It was worth it in the end.
Someone had to read it because of your willingness to write it, post it here, and be open to criticism. You did, after all, ask what we thought - not something I would always recommend here on/. but it has been okay for you so far. Anyhow, I figured I would read your mindless drivel. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was neither mindless or drivel. I would have said it was "okay" or something and concentrated on mentioning the good parts, if there were any. Fortunately I did not have to leave a vague reply as it was legitimately interesting. I recommend other people read your submission and that you consider fleshing it out. You never know when a television show will be along those lines and accept a submitted script and pay you for it. Alternatively you could post it somewhere and allow others to edit it and add to it. It could be an open source book and then you could even call it something like Musings of Nerds.
That China and Russia somehow both managed to crack the encryption (at nearly the same time) and that the intelligence folks would just admit this. Additionally, Snowden supposedly does not have that data with him - he never took it to Russia but left it with a reporter who has an hate-on for Britain so would have released any information about them that was in the files (the unencrypted ones) but is strangely silent on the issue which means that it is likely there is no data on the UK of note and even more unlikely that there would be data about their specific agents in the encrypted file.
I know it is fashionable to think the worst, or at least habitual, but the whole story seemed concocted and full of inconsistencies from the start.
Additionally, Snowden (allegedly) has no capacity to open the encrypted files himself. I certainly believe a foreign power could open encrypted files with enough time, money, and dedication. However, these files have never been uploaded and are not in his possession (allegedly).
He goes into more details in his post and words it better than I. He provides links and support for his theory which make quite a bit of sense and is far more logical than this news article is.
I do not know so I will ask... Is Moore's Law really done or is it still in effect but just on different architecture (as that is where the growth is)? See the advancements in RISC and ARM for examples. I do not know if their expansion is enough to qualify but they are growing in capability at a really incredible rate.
They certainly can use their phone as their only computer (my phone is much faster and has more compute power than many of the computers I have owned) but doing so is just silly in my opinion. Hell, I get one with a slide-out keyboard every time and I still do not find the format functional enough to do any computing tasks. Even browsing many sites is nearly unacceptable. The lack of consistency between sites makes it even worse. I can read email but I would not want to reply to it - less so if I am using the touchscreen keyboard. So, yeah, it is silly in my opinion. While they have functions like a computer, and are a computer, they are not a good substitute for a desktop or a laptop. Note: This is my opinion and your opinion may well be different. I do not even like tablets much for anything other than entertainment. (I did have a nice convertable from Motion back in the day but I eventually wanted to upgrade and my son absconded with the Motion.)
I did not know the duration however, to be honest, this story is rather sketchy and unbelievable. I got a very good (and detailed) reply in one section of this page. I am using quick reply or I would link you to his comment. You can CTRL + F my name and find it (and maybe a chuckle or two) if you are curious.
I guess your idea is much simpler. My thinking was that the Brits were doing something underhanded - pretending to have information that the other two know they do not have in hopes of getting them to move some of their assets around. I also wondered if it may be a sort of hint/warning/code that they new that the two countries were up to something, perhaps, together and that this was a way to let the Russians and Chinese know that they were caught.
I figured you took the time to write it and had the courage to post it here so somebody has an obligation to read it. I also figured I was the one bored person here who would be interested in supporting you. So, I read it. I can honestly say that it was fairly well written (some punctuation issues and some sketchy dialogue but your point remained the same and it was easy enough to understand) and that the plot was actually better than some of the others on that page. I was no longer bored and I appreciate you sharing.
How cute. You think you are going to land in the plane. Your body will be stuffed in an ammo case and dropped out of a C-130 somewhere over the South Pacific. After they use the wrench method of data extraction...
I suspect that he did not have time (or privacy - har har) to sort stuff at the office and did not want to keep his pilfered goods for too long while being in the United States so he probably downloaded and bailed.
How are you encountering this? I have *never* had an issue that required anything like that and I have dealt with service providers forever (and a day). Have you tried just, you know, being nice?
I have a "local" (hardly local but local by definition in my neighborhood) office that has an engineer (or three) on duty at all times. I call them directly. It has been this way since shortly after getting my DLS line put in.
I had a friend come up and visit me. We were stumbling around the property and rather drunk. We discovered a couple of trees that needed to be trimmed and I really did not want to work around power lines. So I called the power company and told them about the trees. (We have heavy snow and ice storms.)
They did not show up.
My friend returns about a year later and we were talking about the trees - and also drunk again. So we shambled down and took a look at the trees. This was not effective. My buddy, bless his soul, asks me to call the power company on my cell. He gets on the phone and gets an employee. He then uses his thick Bostonian accent and says, "I just moved here from Boston. I may be a little drunk but I have these two trees that need cutting out in front of my property and I just bought a chainsaw. I was wondering if you could give me any advice?"
The tree-cutting service was there to trim the trees on Monday.
I do not accept that it is lost. I accept that it has lost its way. I am not one to make any changes, I am a small voice in a small place. I can try. I can give incentive. I can hope. I do not have a lot of hope. I do have a willingness to try because I can not just keep complaining and my vote has made no difference.
Glass should be a monocle. If it was? I would buy one. I might even buy two and send you one just because you made me think of it. I wonder how much Google would charge me for a one-off?
I doubt you can tell, you probably cannot see me from there, but I am still thinking about this. I am thinking you make sense but I was thinking entirely different reasons for them to be dishonest.
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Not all files were encrypted. I highly encourage you to at least take a minute to review his post. In fact...
Okay, I went and dug it out for you so that you have no excuses unless you just do not want to read it.
http://politics.slashdot.org/c...
There are some excellent additional comments threaded below his. If you have time and are actually interested in learning more about these things (as well as the proposed ideas that some have come up with) then the link is right there for you.
Do not worry. Someone will be along shortly to tell you that it is attitudes like your's that prevent women from applying to the tech jobs in the first place. Me? I understand the difference between something said in jest here and something said in a work environment. Though I may have now preempted the aggressive comment(s).
Can an intrusion result in lost data that would violate your attorney-client privileges? If so are there legal repercussions for that? If the answer is yes, to either one, then you may want someone to take a look at it.
I hope it improves there. I have ulterior motives but I have altruistic motives as well. The place, I have only been there once since the mid 1990s, has really fallen apart. The reason I went there was to finish a business deal that I have a small hope for. I bought eight adjoining lots and had the houses (they were uninhabitable and condemned) and had them razed. The cost was trivial compared to the potential reward if Detroit ever gets its feet back under it. So, yes, I have a financial interest in the improvement of Detroit but it is altruistic as well. The only place I have seen worse living conditions, in the United States, is in New Orleans. There are whole swaths of that city that need to be cleaned up - still.
And not employing enough females and minorities.
I guess that is a good thing. In a way. We do not really need much more compute power in the home. This system is *just* an 8 core with 16 GB of RAM. (I once paid $400 USD for a whopping 4 MB of RAM. It was EDO as I recall.) I actually have a new computer sitting in the box, it is twice as fast (theoretically) as it has 16 cores with 32 GB of RAM. I have not dug it out to even turn it on, I have not taken the time to dig out a mouse, keyboard, and monitor for it.
It was on sale at NewEgg recently and I have some impulse issues.
I simply do not need a faster computer. This one does everything I need it to and the effort of configuring that computer just hasn't been worth it yet. Hell, I still own (way too many) computers that are slower than my cell phone by a huge margin. (Who doesn't want to fire up an old TRS-80 and play Zork? Nobody, that's who.) I guess my point is that it is good that it is slowing down - maybe people will hold onto their hardware longer and less will end up in landfills or my basement. Or my attic. Or my den. I am sure you get the idea.
I also see a lot of advancement in the GPU realm. Those seem to be just modified CPUs stuffed onto them so I am not sure that would count for anything either. That too, for my needs, has reached a tipping point where I can not justify getting bleeding edge hardware any more. The onboard stuff suits my needs just fine these days, I can not possibly (personally) need two GPUs slaved together and each with more power than my favorite laptop. If I were not retired I would have a need for these things, especially in lowering the costs in the server room. From what I can tell I would have been able to drop the Sun offerings and simply go with a cluster of gaming PCs though I would probably have to give up the capacity to hotswap components. Then again, with a cluster there is probably a failover that I am not thinking of (or unaware of) that would enable me to take the entire machine offline and simply replace it with distributed storage being a wise option. The savings, right there by itself, would have been enough to rebuild the server room to better optimize the temperature management. Hell, I could have even afforded to give everyone a raise probably - Sun is expensive but damned good equipment.
Anyhow, add to that, we are (well, not me) all returning to the idea of the dumb terminal. We finally have enough compute power on our desks, laps, and phones that we certainly do not need to but the trend seems to be putting everything online and accessing it over the network just like the dumb terminals of yore. I haven't checked but I would not be surprised to see Wyse entering the consumer market. They might as well. That is all many people are doing with their devices now.
Now that would have pissed me off but I have never had that happen. I did have some issues once when I rented a small apartment and had to run around to catch the landlord to get permission for them to do the install in case they had to drill some holes. They did not have to drill any holes but wanted permission preemptively.
I only stayed at the apartment for maybe a week total every month, maybe a bit more in the winter and a bit less in the summer. It was in a town that actually has stores, some amusement, a college, and bars and I was a heavy drinker at the time. My home is about an hour and a half away (during good weather) so the middling town between here and there does not really meet my needs and is still about half the distance it is to Farmington.
I had to preemptively get permission for cable to be installed as well. They were certain they had never installed cable in that apartment. I pointed out that there was a cable line right there in the wall - two even, but they did not listen and insisted I get the form filled out. Fortunately they were both able to email the forms to me and I was able to print them out and then fax them back.
The good news is that it was a static IP address so I had a box that I would VNC into there and could have it do stuff like download large files. Getting DSL (I used to be on satellite then a radio based wireless connection) was a chore. I was about three miles shy of getting DSL and there are only six other houses in this unincorporated township. The company was pretty decent but I had to pay for a "central office" (I believe that is what they called it - it is just a box on the side of the road) and then to upgrade the line. My neighbor chipped in and had the line extended to his place but it took about six months to get that done and was very expensive. I knew things like that were expensive (I actually had priced an ISDN option) but I had no idea that it was *that* pricey. It was worth it in the end.
Someone had to read it because of your willingness to write it, post it here, and be open to criticism. You did, after all, ask what we thought - not something I would always recommend here on /. but it has been okay for you so far. Anyhow, I figured I would read your mindless drivel. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was neither mindless or drivel. I would have said it was "okay" or something and concentrated on mentioning the good parts, if there were any. Fortunately I did not have to leave a vague reply as it was legitimately interesting. I recommend other people read your submission and that you consider fleshing it out. You never know when a television show will be along those lines and accept a submitted script and pay you for it. Alternatively you could post it somewhere and allow others to edit it and add to it. It could be an open source book and then you could even call it something like Musings of Nerds.
That China and Russia somehow both managed to crack the encryption (at nearly the same time) and that the intelligence folks would just admit this. Additionally, Snowden supposedly does not have that data with him - he never took it to Russia but left it with a reporter who has an hate-on for Britain so would have released any information about them that was in the files (the unencrypted ones) but is strangely silent on the issue which means that it is likely there is no data on the UK of note and even more unlikely that there would be data about their specific agents in the encrypted file.
I know it is fashionable to think the worst, or at least habitual, but the whole story seemed concocted and full of inconsistencies from the start.
Additionally, Snowden (allegedly) has no capacity to open the encrypted files himself. I certainly believe a foreign power could open encrypted files with enough time, money, and dedication. However, these files have never been uploaded and are not in his possession (allegedly).
He goes into more details in his post and words it better than I. He provides links and support for his theory which make quite a bit of sense and is far more logical than this news article is.
I do not know so I will ask... Is Moore's Law really done or is it still in effect but just on different architecture (as that is where the growth is)? See the advancements in RISC and ARM for examples. I do not know if their expansion is enough to qualify but they are growing in capability at a really incredible rate.
You can not just take a picture and upload it? That seems, well, unusual.
They certainly can use their phone as their only computer (my phone is much faster and has more compute power than many of the computers I have owned) but doing so is just silly in my opinion. Hell, I get one with a slide-out keyboard every time and I still do not find the format functional enough to do any computing tasks. Even browsing many sites is nearly unacceptable. The lack of consistency between sites makes it even worse. I can read email but I would not want to reply to it - less so if I am using the touchscreen keyboard. So, yeah, it is silly in my opinion. While they have functions like a computer, and are a computer, they are not a good substitute for a desktop or a laptop. Note: This is my opinion and your opinion may well be different. I do not even like tablets much for anything other than entertainment. (I did have a nice convertable from Motion back in the day but I eventually wanted to upgrade and my son absconded with the Motion.)
I did not know the duration however, to be honest, this story is rather sketchy and unbelievable. I got a very good (and detailed) reply in one section of this page. I am using quick reply or I would link you to his comment. You can CTRL + F my name and find it (and maybe a chuckle or two) if you are curious.
I guess your idea is much simpler. My thinking was that the Brits were doing something underhanded - pretending to have information that the other two know they do not have in hopes of getting them to move some of their assets around. I also wondered if it may be a sort of hint/warning/code that they new that the two countries were up to something, perhaps, together and that this was a way to let the Russians and Chinese know that they were caught.
I figured you took the time to write it and had the courage to post it here so somebody has an obligation to read it. I also figured I was the one bored person here who would be interested in supporting you. So, I read it. I can honestly say that it was fairly well written (some punctuation issues and some sketchy dialogue but your point remained the same and it was easy enough to understand) and that the plot was actually better than some of the others on that page. I was no longer bored and I appreciate you sharing.
How cute. You think you are going to land in the plane. Your body will be stuffed in an ammo case and dropped out of a C-130 somewhere over the South Pacific. After they use the wrench method of data extraction...
I suspect that he did not have time (or privacy - har har) to sort stuff at the office and did not want to keep his pilfered goods for too long while being in the United States so he probably downloaded and bailed.
Well, it is too late now so I might as well run with it and have some fun. Trust me, I am not doing anything better.
How are you encountering this? I have *never* had an issue that required anything like that and I have dealt with service providers forever (and a day). Have you tried just, you know, being nice?
I have a "local" (hardly local but local by definition in my neighborhood) office that has an engineer (or three) on duty at all times. I call them directly. It has been this way since shortly after getting my DLS line put in.
I had a friend come up and visit me. We were stumbling around the property and rather drunk. We discovered a couple of trees that needed to be trimmed and I really did not want to work around power lines. So I called the power company and told them about the trees. (We have heavy snow and ice storms.)
They did not show up.
My friend returns about a year later and we were talking about the trees - and also drunk again. So we shambled down and took a look at the trees. This was not effective. My buddy, bless his soul, asks me to call the power company on my cell. He gets on the phone and gets an employee. He then uses his thick Bostonian accent and says, "I just moved here from Boston. I may be a little drunk but I have these two trees that need cutting out in front of my property and I just bought a chainsaw. I was wondering if you could give me any advice?"
The tree-cutting service was there to trim the trees on Monday.
I do not accept that it is lost. I accept that it has lost its way. I am not one to make any changes, I am a small voice in a small place. I can try. I can give incentive. I can hope. I do not have a lot of hope. I do have a willingness to try because I can not just keep complaining and my vote has made no difference.
Glass should be a monocle. If it was? I would buy one. I might even buy two and send you one just because you made me think of it. I wonder how much Google would charge me for a one-off?
I doubt you can tell, you probably cannot see me from there, but I am still thinking about this. I am thinking you make sense but I was thinking entirely different reasons for them to be dishonest.
The next message is, "Sorry I am late but I met this girl..."