People forget how much we depend on the internet for basic things. (Writing from a USA perspective).
Without the internet, suddenly all the Cisco phones can't check in daily. The windows computers freeze up during windows update (imagine if he flips the switch *during* an update), cash registers can't authenticate credit cards, most iPhone apps fail (maps!)...
Is Russia as internet-dependent as we are?
Except for a flash drive in a router. I guess these days internet hosting and connection speeds have become so much more affordable and overall better that it doesn't make sense to archive the world at your house.
A few years back it was a different story:
SGI Challenge 12 CPU IRIX machine
Sun UltraSPARC
K6-2/500 with Debian Linux (or FreeBSD, depends on what year)
P3-? with NetBSD
Plus probably 5-6 random computers.. iMac here, dell there, etc.
Mod parent up. Awesome.
Just use a label maker on the back of the phone with contact information for yourself and your wife. Helps if someone finds your phone too.
Or carry a card in your wallet?
iOS is closed-source. As is the hardware.
Until there are a few independent source audits (unlikely), we only have Apple's word to go on. Nobody wishing to hide anything should trust the "word" of a corporation that their device is encrypted safely.
Is anyone stupid enough to believe this?
Having said that, even if it is true, the fingerprint reader is a lot easier to fool, and the government has experience with fingerprints. So maybe that makes the passcode irrelevant.
You can also set it to erase everything if the passcode is wrong more than ten times.
You're preaching to the choir.
And if that hardware doesn't suit you, you can always download PCalc. Highly recommend it.
AND, if you're on linux or another similar OS:
xcalc -rpn
Is pretty good! .
And all the rest of them. For once both parties "worked together", and indeed, they accomplished their goals. Now we rely on and fear of big brother more than ever. Job well done.
Source: http://educate-yourself.org/cn...
357 from the house, and these wonderful 98 from the senate:
Akaka (D-HI), Yea,Allard (R-CO), Yea,Allen (R-VA), Yea,Baucus (D-MT), Yea,Bayh (D-IN), Yea,Bennett (R-UT), Yea,Biden (D-DE), Yea,Bingaman (D-NM), Yea,Bond (R-MO), Yea,Boxer (D-CA), Yea,Breaux (D-LA), Yea,Brownback (R-KS), Yea,Bunning (R-KY), Yea,Burns (R-MT), Yea,Byrd (D-WV), Yea,Campbell (R-CO), Yea,Cantwell (D-WA), Yea,Carnahan (D-MO), Yea,Carper (D-DE), Yea,Chafee (R-RI), Yea,Cleland (D-GA), Yea,Clinton (D-NY), Yea,Cochran (R-MS), Yea,Collins (R-ME), Yea,Conrad (D-ND), Yea,Corzine (D-NJ), Yea,Craig (R-ID), Yea,Crapo (R-ID), Yea,Daschle (D-SD), Yea,Dayton (D-MN), Yea,DeWine (R-OH), Yea, Dodd (D-CT), Yea,Domenici (R-NM), Yea,Dorgan (D-ND), Yea,Durbin (D-IL), Yea,Edwards (D-NC), Yea,Ensign (R-NV), Yea,Enzi (R-WY), Yea,Feinstein (D-CA), Yea,Fitzgerald (R-IL), Yea,Frist (R-TN), Yea,Graham (D-FL), Yea,Gramm (R-TX), Yea,Grassley (R-IA), Yea,Gregg (R-NH), Yea,Hagel (R-NE), Yea,Harkin (D-IA), Yea,Hatch (R-UT), Yea,Helms (R-NC), Yea,Hollings (D-SC), Yea,Hutchinson (R-AR), Yea,Hutchison (R-TX), Yea,Inhofe (R-OK), Yea,Inouye (D-HI), Yea,Jeffords (I-VT), Yea,Johnson (D-SD), Yea,Kennedy (D-MA), Yea,Kerry (D-MA), Yea,Kohl (D-WI), Yea,Kyl (R-AZ), Yea,Leahy (D-VT), Yea,Levin (D-MI), Yea,Lieberman (D-CT), Yea,Lincoln (D-AR), Yea,
Big brother gave a speech and named the latest/newest foreign enemy of America. The crowds cheered. The inner party clapped feverishly. The media (ministry of truth) immediately launched new stories and interviews supporting big brother's speech. The lower class bought it hook and sinker.
There were no laws needed. Big brother decided what was right and what was wrong. If you had an independent thought and were deemed too intelligent, you simply vaporized. You could never tell exactly when they were listening...
Go read 1984.pdf. NOW.
That is a shame. Should order one while we still can.
A lot longer. The parent's post about kids not using the 10^x function is, of course, all about entering the data in incorrectly. Which is about their lack of understanding in order of operations. However...
On an HP:
4 [enter]
2E3 [divide]
It's not too bad, and now that I do things that way, I am somewhat handicapped when it comes to other calculators...
Explain please how a drill press is not secure.
Let's see...
1) flashy: not really
2) secure: definitely, no hard disk has ever been physically reconstructed that had holes in the platters. Short of a scanning electron microscope, you're not reconstructing that data
3) available: go to home depot
4) price: yes, more expensive than running dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/olddisk, but cheaper than an industrial-grade shredder and of course cheaper than any commercial "enterprise" data removing software. I think drill presses can be had for around $200.
I've never had to learn or use assembly (though I wouldn't mind trying).
What I want to say is that you may gain a similar knowledge by working with microcontrollers and low-resource embedded platforms. When every byte of memory and every instruction cycle counts, you will start to think about algorithm efficiency and other tradeoffs that simply don't matter on an enormous 16-core Xenon workstation with 32 GB of ram. And then, of course, this does lead to better code on those big desktop machines. Those optimizations do add up in larger programs.
As for the overall OP's topic, yes, it is a problem that CS grads are "only" working in Java. So they're learning about program flow control and algorithms. But a mathematician can do that. The CS grads that learn programming at a lower level really do have an edge over those that are just point-n-click-n-type java programmers.
To me, and I'm an EE, knowledge of the above resource-limited systems, linux, and C has taken me a long way. It has enabled me to work on just about anything.
Your post is not clear on what you mean by "without a firewall". There are so many places in a typical setup where a firewall could be placed, and yes, it is safe to leave them out in some situations.
For example, your store has a firewall at the internet connection and everything inside is a private ip address. The cash registers run on their own network, firewall'd away from the other computers in the store, with rules to allow for outgoing credit card authorizations and that sort of thing. Does each cash register need a firewall? Probably not, and it might even be a significant expense to maintain updated rules every time the network needs to be reconfigured.
So yeah, it depends on the entire configuration. The tone of your post suggests that the situation is not good though, and of course, it's a lot easier to argue for a firewall these days than against one.
So then add a short USB cable. If you're building something for production, then make a custom board. Beagle Bone is a fine product to have fun with.
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