It is only a matter of time. They keep trying to shovel more and more shit into HTML, CSS and javascript and the tipping point is not far off.
And oh by the way I have yet to see HTML5 prevent drive by's since the same fucked up code that allowed it to happen in the 1st place is still in there. Why that code has not been ripped out with extreme prejudice is beyond me.
The problem is that everything in http is text, no binary data. It is connectionless and the hacks that have come along to try and fix that are a joke and don't really work. So now we have shit like Avro, or JSON all this cruft that takes binary data, turns it into text, then javascript has turn that into code, then turn the results back into text, to send that data back to the server, to then get it turned back into binary data to then actual do something with it.
The web browser was never intended to be an application framework, it was designed to render text using markup language. Then came CSS and if there was ever a textbook example of a kludge then CSS is it. I mean twisting an unordered list into a set of menu's!? For pitty's sake. Checkboxes don't return anything in a get or post unless they are checked? They simply don't exist?! 5 versions of the HTML spec later and that is still true?
How about input validation? Yes we have something that sort of does that now, but not until a form submit method fires and you have to deal with them one by one on each on submit? If you want to do it in the onBlur, or onExit method of a control you have to write javascript functions?! I mean really, how hard is to implement that kind of stuff in the browser where you simply feed it a mask, hell they have had that kind of technology since COBOL for crying out loud!
If the WC3 wants to be taken seriously they need to fucking hang the old crap out to dry and move on. It is time, ti really is.
Simple. I won't leave my guns all locked up in a central location where people who think that ONLY the government should have guns can come and easily confiscate them when they manage to defeat the second amendment.
The basic idea is that you use a set of Bluetooth receivers interspersed along a traffic corridor and attempt to track unique MAC addresses through the corridor and thus you can come up with an average, near real time, travel time through that corridor.
Some of the more interesting parts of doing include a car full of people, each with a cell phone and a laptop and quite possibly the car's own Bluetooth system. So while it is good for averaging speed and validating other measurement methods, it is not very good for counting the number of devices moving through a corridor.
The Greenville was pure stupidity. That was what was called a "Family Cruise". There is a maintenance requirement to do an emergency blow every now and again to make sure all the bits and parts work. It is also a hell of a fun ride. I did one of those and we had wives, kids and girlfriends on board. The procedure should have been surface transit out to one of the designated operating area's. Submerge, do some angles and dangles have lunch and let everyone mill about, hang out with the crew and then get ready to do the blow, do it and then surface transit back to port.
The procedure should have been: Come up to PD, and have a good long look around and the course you intend to perform and make sure there was nothing withing quite a few miles. Then back down. Make an announcement then perform the operation. My guess is that they got distracted and failed to notice the fishing boat and the fuck up ensued.
As to your other question. It happens quickly. From the moment the OD gives the order to come to PD it takes less then a minute. You don't want to fuck around. A submarine in the transition zone is VERY vulnerable since you are in the depth zone where deep draft tankers and container ships can just flat out cut you in half. You want to get the scope above the surface quickly so you can actually see what is out there.
As to quick action to abort that operation.. Remember your basic motion equations and inertia. You get that much steel moving in a direction and it takes quite a bit of time to make it suddenly go in the opposite direction.
I agree with your observation about the MC but a ship commander has a very few things that will get him instantly fired and this is one of those few. Other then that he is the closest thing to an absolute ruler left and those above him will do pretty much anything to preserve that.
There is no fair. The CO is given complete charge of a multi-billion dollar war machine and has absolute authority over its operation and crew, therefor he has absolute responsibility for everything that happens, his fault, your fault, my fault, nobodies fault he still burns.
just lost their jobs. For the CO ( commanding officer ) his career just ended. The JO ( Junior Officer ) that more then likely had the Deck and the Con ( In other words he was in charge of operating the sub at the moment and a single person is normally the Officer of the Deck and the Conning Officer generally referred to as the "OD" ) more then likely will get a punitive letter of reprimand ( A kiss of death) and here is why:
Periscope Depth (PD) is ~ 65' feet of water over the Deck ( The top of the submarine you see ). When preparing to go to PD the sequence is: The Conning Officer gets a round ( a spoken list ) of contacts from the Sonar Supervisor on watch, eg: "Sonar, Con give me a round." and the list of all known contacts is told to the OD orally. In addition to there is a display repeater to show the OD what the sonar guys see on their displays.. Generally if the CO is awake the OD informs the CO that he believes all is clear to come up to PD from ~ 150'. At this point the sub is going slow enough to raise the #2 Periscope ( they have two ). So the OD raises the Scope and the takes a look around. He looks for shadows or hulls form in the vicinity. When he is satisfied he then gives the order to the Diving Officer ( Normally a Chief Petty Officer that is in charge of the Chief of the Watch, the Helmsman ad the Planesman), "Dive make your depth 65 feet." the Diving officer responds, "Make my depth 65 feet, aye sir." and he will then tell the Helmsman and Planesman to position the control surfaces to accomplish that.
At this point the OD is just basically on the Scope spinning around looking for anything that will ruin his day and focusing most his attention to a 30 degree area in front of the sub and should be calling out to everyone in the control room, "No underwater hull shapes or forms, no shadows." When the Scope lens breaks the surface, he calls out, "Scope Clear, no close aboard contacts." This lets everyone in the Control Room chill out a little. Meantime he is still looking everywhere to make damn sure that they are not going to get run down."
So a chunk of the officer corp is now fucked but my SWAG on this is that it will go a little deeper then that. My guess is that the Sonar Supervisor ( an enlisted guy ) will at minimum get his Watch Supervisor certification yanked ( possibly for good ) and quite possibly demoted since an Aegis Class Cruiser is VERY damned obvious to submarine sonar and the Fire Control guys should have had a continuous plot on the damn thing and the SONAR system should have had them locked on with Automatic Target Following.
The Submarine Squadron Commander more then likely met the boat at the pier and relieved the CO on the spot as that is pretty much SOP for the Navy. The CO of a naval ship at sea is responsible for everything except when the Bow of the sub crosses over the sill of a dry dock ( at which point it shifts to the docking officer ) and when transiting the Panama Canal ( The Co takes orders from the Certified Canal Pilot as far as navigation and speed ) and even then he will still get singed of the shit goes wrong.
And yes I was a Submarine Sonar Tech ( SSN-650 and SSN-692 ).
GPS approaches are getting better http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/articles/2012/120209faa-marks-gps-approach-milestone.html but still lack decent altitude information. GPS uses a stepped approach method ie: at position X,Y you need to be at Z altitude as read from the approach plate ( or indicated on the GPS device ) whereas with the more tradition ILS approach providing a glide slope, you fly a standard 3 degree slope and are guided by the signal until decision height is reached.
There is a substantial amount of math and logic that should be used as a foundation for programming. I know the coworkers that would otherwise be installing air conditioners when I ask people if they thing we could use a more functional-type language for a new project instead of an object oriented language. You're usually met with blank stares.
So very sorry but I must take exception with this. The "substantial amount of math" comes down to the 4 basic operations. Even partial differential equations come down to it with lots of looping. Really good programmers are not mathematicians for the most part. Really good programmers understand the machine and mathematicians dream up equations that do "something" and then explain in terms that can be translated into code.
And as to the bit about functional -v- object oriented languages, your tipping your "coding snobbery" hand a bit and indicating you are the kind of person who just wants to play with the newest toys. All the languages out there are mostly based on C and no one has yet been able to come up with anything that is actually better, but is rather simply a derivative. Yes syntactic sugar abounds but strip that away and you have C. Functional languages are almost pure syntactical sugar as the underlying code that is generated is still the basic loop and branch that applies to all languages regardless of their style and name.
of an AC is about 10 minutes in an open ocean battle, and we have not seen one of those since the Falkland Islands and that was a skirmish compared with WW-II where the fleets met at sea and slugged it out. The AC's job is to deploy its aircraft and hopefully still be there to recover them to rearm and refuel them and relaunch.
Skip ahead to today. The only country that can put a significant fleet to sea is the United States. Yes Russia has an AC, the Brits have one, the Chinese as well, but we are the only country that has many of them, for what its worth.
There is NO FLEET on the ocean today that can withstand a concerted attack by the Unites States Submarine Force. The Modern US nuclear Submarine is for all intents and purposes invisible and undetectable until it is way past too late. They have the ability to deploy standoff weapons such as the harpoon missile ( 50 mile range ) that are fire and forget. Torpedo's that you don't even want to be in the same ocean with if you are a target ( MK-48 ) that will break a ship in half ( an AC might take 2 ).
Against an opponent that has no naval presence or serious anti-ship missile program or serious Air Combat capability, an AC is for all intents and purposes untouchable. Against the USN? Not a chance in hell.
Until the fix the TX number issue ( the infamous rollover ) then they are pretty much out of the running in DB's that have VERY high insert levels since the vacuum process cannot hope to keep up with tables that have 100's of millions of rows.
I am an Oracle professional but I do keep track of Postgres and like it, but the 32 bit TX t is a bit of an Achilles heel.
You can't just "install" something in an aircraft. If it is your own private personal aircraft all you have to do is update your weight and balance and more then likely you will get away with it.
This is not anyone's personal private helicopter. This is a helicopter operating under part 135 (?) rules. EVERYTHING that gets installed has to be approved, logged, certified, etc. etc.
An mp3 device like he is talking about does not get "installed" it just gets plugged into the intercom and that you cannot get dinged for although they are really flirting with the edge of the rules by having it wired into the cyclic control buttons.
Best explanation I have found that says it succinctly. I hope it helps.
Dynamic range = difference between highest and lowest(brightest/darkest) value that can be recorded on a medium.
Latitude = The degree of variation allowed above or below a certain setting, derived directly from dynamic range. i.e latitude a film is for a certain exposure, how many stops of headroom it has above and below before you lose details.
And just for fun...
Contrast = the difference between intermediate tonal values within a certain range. Generally, contrast is inversely related to dynamic range. A wider range allows finer graduations and hence lower contrast if desired. Contrast is directly related to the tonal response of the medium and can be visualized as a curve from light to dark. The steeper gradient of the curve, the higher the contrast at that point.
I have been an amateur photographer most of my life. The holy grail of photography, for me, has been to find film or techniques that bring film images as close to the latitude of the human eye. In Film Speak the human eye can handle around 12 to 14 f-stops around a given lighted scene. Which is to say that the information that your retina takes in ( given a central point that has lighted value of n ) can be discriminated 12 to 14 f-stops darker or brighter.
We have all experienced taking a picture of a brightly or darkly lit scene. Sunsets are a great example. We as a viewer can enjoy a sunset and see all the detail ( quite clearly ) around us AND enjoy the sunset. This is one of the hardest, if not impossible, things to do with any camera, digital or otherwise for the simple reason that to correctly expose for the sky ( the sunset ) we will always drastically underexpose everything else around us by a large factor.
I think this can be solved with a digital camera, but not until computing speeds drastically increase and not just by a little bit, but by several orders of magnitude since it would mean that each individual pixel would have to be processed and recorded for the sufficient amount of time to record the detail level in a still shot. So in a Nikon D5100 the sensor has ~16 million pixels. To obtain a shutter speed of 1/125 of a second (.008 seconds ) each pixel who have to be processed in about 5 pico seconds ( 16 million /.008 = 1 * 5 -10th) and of course faster shutter speeds, well you get the point.
Back when I was coming up the only way your BIOS was updated was when you opened up the machine, pulled out the old BIOS chip and put a new one in. Yes stone age I know, but there was no way for code running on the computer to do anything to the BIOS at all.
Sometimes to old ways are the best way. You want real security at the BIOS level? Burn the code into the chip. It is a one time deal. You need a bios update? The manufacturer sends you a new chip. Better yet, you want a better BIOS? Burn your own. Make the BIOS open source. Start a company that burns BIOS chips for anyone who wants one from a known open source binary that can be verified. There is a mass of opportunity here.
Cost... Hmmm I wonder if the market would bare the cost if they true cost of all this security theater. I think they just might.
P.S. Not only is it "stupid and wrong" but you are also "Stupid and Ugly" (c) Linus, if you go along with it.
Floyd Landis -- Uhmm yeah between stages he decides to inject synthetic testosterone?!? That defies any kind of logic.
The French have been after LA since he won. The French are after ANYONE who is not French, they have not won their own fucking race since when? They came up with the World Cup for soccer and they have won it how many times?
As a lawyer you should not even consider it. Lawyers must guarantee confidentiality of all client work, you remember that part from law school right? You need a departmental server that says who gets access to what and you need to track who authored and who modified. You must ensure it is not only backed up and those backups safely stored, but discoverable.
You also need a completely bullet proof journaling file system so you can un-delete documents that are inadvertently deleted and we are not even talking deliberate acts here, just and oops because the judge is not going to be very sympathetic and your opposing counsel will smile appreciatively when you don;t meet a filing deadline ( I forget the exact word when you must file by a certain date in order to have standing ).
The above is the very reason most lawyers have not gone paperless. AFAIK, the only two products out there that meat the above criteria are a Windows or a Novell ( OES2 - linux with the Novell layer on top ) server. Now you can download Novell OES2 for free ( you have to create an account ) and they will try and get you to purchase support, but you are not required to but you would be a fool not to.
The bottom line here is don't play fast and loose with your clients information if not for their sakes then for your own. Fucking this stuff will not only get you slapped with a huge malpractice suite but could damn well get you disbarred, but I figure you know that.
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It is only a matter of time. They keep trying to shovel more and more shit into HTML, CSS and javascript and the tipping point is not far off.
And oh by the way I have yet to see HTML5 prevent drive by's since the same fucked up code that allowed it to happen in the 1st place is still in there. Why that code has not been ripped out with extreme prejudice is beyond me.
The problem is that everything in http is text, no binary data. It is connectionless and the hacks that have come along to try and fix that are a joke and don't really work. So now we have shit like Avro, or JSON all this cruft that takes binary data, turns it into text, then javascript has turn that into code, then turn the results back into text, to send that data back to the server, to then get it turned back into binary data to then actual do something with it.
The web browser was never intended to be an application framework, it was designed to render text using markup language. Then came CSS and if there was ever a textbook example of a kludge then CSS is it. I mean twisting an unordered list into a set of menu's!? For pitty's sake. Checkboxes don't return anything in a get or post unless they are checked? They simply don't exist?! 5 versions of the HTML spec later and that is still true?
How about input validation? Yes we have something that sort of does that now, but not until a form submit method fires and you have to deal with them one by one on each on submit? If you want to do it in the onBlur, or onExit method of a control you have to write javascript functions?! I mean really, how hard is to implement that kind of stuff in the browser where you simply feed it a mask, hell they have had that kind of technology since COBOL for crying out loud!
If the WC3 wants to be taken seriously they need to fucking hang the old crap out to dry and move on. It is time, ti really is.
Simple. I won't leave my guns all locked up in a central location where people who think that ONLY the government should have guns can come and easily confiscate them when they manage to defeat the second amendment.
The basic idea is that you use a set of Bluetooth receivers interspersed along a traffic corridor and attempt to track unique MAC addresses through the corridor and thus you can come up with an average, near real time, travel time through that corridor.
Some of the more interesting parts of doing include a car full of people, each with a cell phone and a laptop and quite possibly the car's own Bluetooth system. So while it is good for averaging speed and validating other measurement methods, it is not very good for counting the number of devices moving through a corridor.
That is not sail boat.
The Greenville was pure stupidity. That was what was called a "Family Cruise". There is a maintenance requirement to do an emergency blow every now and again to make sure all the bits and parts work. It is also a hell of a fun ride. I did one of those and we had wives, kids and girlfriends on board. The procedure should have been surface transit out to one of the designated operating area's. Submerge, do some angles and dangles have lunch and let everyone mill about, hang out with the crew and then get ready to do the blow, do it and then surface transit back to port.
The procedure should have been: Come up to PD, and have a good long look around and the course you intend to perform and make sure there was nothing withing quite a few miles. Then back down. Make an announcement then perform the operation. My guess is that they got distracted and failed to notice the fishing boat and the fuck up ensued.
As to your other question. It happens quickly. From the moment the OD gives the order to come to PD it takes less then a minute. You don't want to fuck around. A submarine in the transition zone is VERY vulnerable since you are in the depth zone where deep draft tankers and container ships can just flat out cut you in half. You want to get the scope above the surface quickly so you can actually see what is out there.
As to quick action to abort that operation.. Remember your basic motion equations and inertia. You get that much steel moving in a direction and it takes quite a bit of time to make it suddenly go in the opposite direction.
I agree with your observation about the MC but a ship commander has a very few things that will get him instantly fired and this is one of those few. Other then that he is the closest thing to an absolute ruler left and those above him will do pretty much anything to preserve that.
There is no fair. The CO is given complete charge of a multi-billion dollar war machine and has absolute authority over its operation and crew, therefor he has absolute responsibility for everything that happens, his fault, your fault, my fault, nobodies fault he still burns.
just lost their jobs. For the CO ( commanding officer ) his career just ended. The JO ( Junior Officer ) that more then likely had the Deck and the Con ( In other words he was in charge of operating the sub at the moment and a single person is normally the Officer of the Deck and the Conning Officer generally referred to as the "OD" ) more then likely will get a punitive letter of reprimand ( A kiss of death) and here is why:
Periscope Depth (PD) is ~ 65' feet of water over the Deck ( The top of the submarine you see ). When preparing to go to PD the sequence is: The Conning Officer gets a round ( a spoken list ) of contacts from the Sonar Supervisor on watch, eg: "Sonar, Con give me a round." and the list of all known contacts is told to the OD orally. In addition to there is a display repeater to show the OD what the sonar guys see on their displays.. Generally if the CO is awake the OD informs the CO that he believes all is clear to come up to PD from ~ 150'. At this point the sub is going slow enough to raise the #2 Periscope ( they have two ). So the OD raises the Scope and the takes a look around. He looks for shadows or hulls form in the vicinity. When he is satisfied he then gives the order to the Diving Officer ( Normally a Chief Petty Officer that is in charge of the Chief of the Watch, the Helmsman ad the Planesman), "Dive make your depth 65 feet." the Diving officer responds, "Make my depth 65 feet, aye sir." and he will then tell the Helmsman and Planesman to position the control surfaces to accomplish that.
At this point the OD is just basically on the Scope spinning around looking for anything that will ruin his day and focusing most his attention to a 30 degree area in front of the sub and should be calling out to everyone in the control room, "No underwater hull shapes or forms, no shadows." When the Scope lens breaks the surface, he calls out, "Scope Clear, no close aboard contacts." This lets everyone in the Control Room chill out a little. Meantime he is still looking everywhere to make damn sure that they are not going to get run down."
So a chunk of the officer corp is now fucked but my SWAG on this is that it will go a little deeper then that. My guess is that the Sonar Supervisor ( an enlisted guy ) will at minimum get his Watch Supervisor certification yanked ( possibly for good ) and quite possibly demoted since an Aegis Class Cruiser is VERY damned obvious to submarine sonar and the Fire Control guys should have had a continuous plot on the damn thing and the SONAR system should have had them locked on with Automatic Target Following.
The Submarine Squadron Commander more then likely met the boat at the pier and relieved the CO on the spot as that is pretty much SOP for the Navy. The CO of a naval ship at sea is responsible for everything except when the Bow of the sub crosses over the sill of a dry dock ( at which point it shifts to the docking officer ) and when transiting the Panama Canal ( The Co takes orders from the Certified Canal Pilot as far as navigation and speed ) and even then he will still get singed of the shit goes wrong.
And yes I was a Submarine Sonar Tech ( SSN-650 and SSN-692 ).
How long does it take the unit to "settle" so that the reading is stable?
GPS approaches are getting better http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/articles/2012/120209faa-marks-gps-approach-milestone.html but still lack decent altitude information. GPS uses a stepped approach method ie: at position X,Y you need to be at Z altitude as read from the approach plate ( or indicated on the GPS device ) whereas with the more tradition ILS approach providing a glide slope, you fly a standard 3 degree slope and are guided by the signal until decision height is reached.
There is a substantial amount of math and logic that should be used as a foundation for programming. I know the coworkers that would otherwise be installing air conditioners when I ask people if they thing we could use a more functional-type language for a new project instead of an object oriented language. You're usually met with blank stares.
So very sorry but I must take exception with this. The "substantial amount of math" comes down to the 4 basic operations. Even partial differential equations come down to it with lots of looping. Really good programmers are not mathematicians for the most part. Really good programmers understand the machine and mathematicians dream up equations that do "something" and then explain in terms that can be translated into code.
And as to the bit about functional -v- object oriented languages, your tipping your "coding snobbery" hand a bit and indicating you are the kind of person who just wants to play with the newest toys. All the languages out there are mostly based on C and no one has yet been able to come up with anything that is actually better, but is rather simply a derivative. Yes syntactic sugar abounds but strip that away and you have C. Functional languages are almost pure syntactical sugar as the underlying code that is generated is still the basic loop and branch that applies to all languages regardless of their style and name.
of an AC is about 10 minutes in an open ocean battle, and we have not seen one of those since the Falkland Islands and that was a skirmish compared with WW-II where the fleets met at sea and slugged it out. The AC's job is to deploy its aircraft and hopefully still be there to recover them to rearm and refuel them and relaunch.
Skip ahead to today. The only country that can put a significant fleet to sea is the United States. Yes Russia has an AC, the Brits have one, the Chinese as well, but we are the only country that has many of them, for what its worth.
There is NO FLEET on the ocean today that can withstand a concerted attack by the Unites States Submarine Force. The Modern US nuclear Submarine is for all intents and purposes invisible and undetectable until it is way past too late. They have the ability to deploy standoff weapons such as the harpoon missile ( 50 mile range ) that are fire and forget. Torpedo's that you don't even want to be in the same ocean with if you are a target ( MK-48 ) that will break a ship in half ( an AC might take 2 ).
Against an opponent that has no naval presence or serious anti-ship missile program or serious Air Combat capability, an AC is for all intents and purposes untouchable. Against the USN? Not a chance in hell.
hmmmm table with 17 trillion rows? Not so much.
Until the fix the TX number issue ( the infamous rollover ) then they are pretty much out of the running in DB's that have VERY high insert levels since the vacuum process cannot hope to keep up with tables that have 100's of millions of rows.
I am an Oracle professional but I do keep track of Postgres and like it, but the 32 bit TX t is a bit of an Achilles heel.
You can't just "install" something in an aircraft. If it is your own private personal aircraft all you have to do is update your weight and balance and more then likely you will get away with it.
This is not anyone's personal private helicopter. This is a helicopter operating under part 135 (?) rules. EVERYTHING that gets installed has to be approved, logged, certified, etc. etc.
An mp3 device like he is talking about does not get "installed" it just gets plugged into the intercom and that you cannot get dinged for although they are really flirting with the edge of the rules by having it wired into the cyclic control buttons.
I don't know of any medium that has the dynamic range of a sunset ...
True enough, except for my eyes that display it to my brain. As I said, the holy grail
Best explanation I have found that says it succinctly. I hope it helps.
Dynamic range = difference between highest and lowest(brightest/darkest) value that can be recorded on a medium.
Latitude = The degree of variation allowed above or below a certain setting, derived directly from dynamic range. i.e latitude a film is for a certain exposure, how many stops of headroom it has above and below before you lose details.
And just for fun...
Contrast = the difference between intermediate tonal values within a certain range. Generally, contrast is inversely related to dynamic range. A wider range allows finer graduations and hence lower contrast if desired. Contrast is directly related to the tonal response of the medium and can be visualized as a curve from light to dark. The steeper gradient of the curve, the higher the contrast at that point.
and I don;t mean those little lines on the globe.
I have been an amateur photographer most of my life. The holy grail of photography, for me, has been to find film or techniques that bring film images as close to the latitude of the human eye. In Film Speak the human eye can handle around 12 to 14 f-stops around a given lighted scene. Which is to say that the information that your retina takes in ( given a central point that has lighted value of n ) can be discriminated 12 to 14 f-stops darker or brighter.
We have all experienced taking a picture of a brightly or darkly lit scene. Sunsets are a great example. We as a viewer can enjoy a sunset and see all the detail ( quite clearly ) around us AND enjoy the sunset. This is one of the hardest, if not impossible, things to do with any camera, digital or otherwise for the simple reason that to correctly expose for the sky ( the sunset ) we will always drastically underexpose everything else around us by a large factor.
I think this can be solved with a digital camera, but not until computing speeds drastically increase and not just by a little bit, but by several orders of magnitude since it would mean that each individual pixel would have to be processed and recorded for the sufficient amount of time to record the detail level in a still shot. So in a Nikon D5100 the sensor has ~16 million pixels. To obtain a shutter speed of 1/125 of a second ( .008 seconds ) each pixel who have to be processed in about 5 pico seconds ( 16 million / .008 = 1 * 5 -10th) and of course faster shutter speeds, well you get the point.
Back when I was coming up the only way your BIOS was updated was when you opened up the machine, pulled out the old BIOS chip and put a new one in. Yes stone age I know, but there was no way for code running on the computer to do anything to the BIOS at all.
Sometimes to old ways are the best way. You want real security at the BIOS level? Burn the code into the chip. It is a one time deal. You need a bios update? The manufacturer sends you a new chip. Better yet, you want a better BIOS? Burn your own. Make the BIOS open source. Start a company that burns BIOS chips for anyone who wants one from a known open source binary that can be verified. There is a mass of opportunity here.
Cost... Hmmm I wonder if the market would bare the cost if they true cost of all this security theater. I think they just might.
P.S. Not only is it "stupid and wrong" but you are also "Stupid and Ugly" (c) Linus, if you go along with it.
Floyd Landis -- Uhmm yeah between stages he decides to inject synthetic testosterone?!? That defies any kind of logic.
The French have been after LA since he won. The French are after ANYONE who is not French, they have not won their own fucking race since when? They came up with the World Cup for soccer and they have won it how many times?
There had been hope that Microsoft would at least relent and let corporate users have a bypass, if only for compatibility's sake.
Balmer! Its the guy that is wrong, yet again!
lets me choose my own block delimiter I will consider it, until then it sucks ditch water and is not worthy of even the most banal task.
As a lawyer you should not even consider it. Lawyers must guarantee confidentiality of all client work, you remember that part from law school right? You need a departmental server that says who gets access to what and you need to track who authored and who modified. You must ensure it is not only backed up and those backups safely stored, but discoverable.
You also need a completely bullet proof journaling file system so you can un-delete documents that are inadvertently deleted and we are not even talking deliberate acts here, just and oops because the judge is not going to be very sympathetic and your opposing counsel will smile appreciatively when you don;t meet a filing deadline ( I forget the exact word when you must file by a certain date in order to have standing ).
The above is the very reason most lawyers have not gone paperless. AFAIK, the only two products out there that meat the above criteria are a Windows or a Novell ( OES2 - linux with the Novell layer on top ) server. Now you can download Novell OES2 for free ( you have to create an account ) and they will try and get you to purchase support, but you are not required to but you would be a fool not to.
The bottom line here is don't play fast and loose with your clients information if not for their sakes then for your own. Fucking this stuff will not only get you slapped with a huge malpractice suite but could damn well get you disbarred, but I figure you know that.
it is one of those rare occasions. I play guitar and my Fender Hot Rod Deville goes to 12 though.