Hm. I am going to have to disagree with you there. A false sense of security can be gleaned from such data; however, a false sense of security can be had from NO information at all. A false sense of security is a failing in the security practitioner, not a result of the data. For example, let's say someone has done this analysis and thinks they are secure and then reads your comment. They then know the limitations of what their data can expose and can continue to look for more subtle traces leading to discovery of more sophisticated agents operating within their systems.

A false sense of security is in essence another formulation of what I call the arrogance problem. Always keep your mind open to new ideas and interpretations and you can avoid this issue more often than not. I hope you did not get modded down for displaying a potential problem. You were a bit harsh but skins should not be thin here.

To be fair, it is always good to eliminate the obvious first. Stopping there is stupid, but starting there is good.

LOL, I hate to be pedantic but I LOVE cars. Lamborghini is not a car, they are a manufacturer. They have several models, some are over a million, some can be had for slightly under 200k if you look carefully.

Bugatti makes a Veyron, not a Veryon. Current models are going for over 1.5m IIRC. Easy typo to make but it is what put me into pedantic mode. The market share thing with a model and then just a manufacturer is what threw it over the edge. Nothing personal. We all do silly things like that. I probably made a few mistakes that pedants can get me for in my correction of your post. :P

Have a nice day. Heheh. :)

Yup! In 7th grade Geography class. The very first period we covered it started with how to properly unfold and fold it. Then we went on to the symbols and what they meant, etc etc. We also learned that all Interstate Highways that are North/South are odd numbers and East/West are even numbers so if you are in I40, you are heading either in an easterly or westerly direction and if you are on I55, north or south.

Of course that moved on to other map types such as mercator projections, topography maps, and such. What do they teach in schools nowadays? How to install Google Maps onto your Android phone?

Weird. I just asked one of my coworkers who is roughly the same age as me and he never had a Geography class. WTF? I had been under the impression that Geography was common pretty much across America.

A USB audio interface also lies outside the electrically noisy interior of a PC chassis.

Strong caution with USB audio. There is a metric buttload of cheap USB adapters, While they technically work, they typically lack analog filtering that gets rid of higher harmonics. If you look at the output on an oscilloscope, instead of a smooth wave, you see the actual steps. Better audio hardware should have filters to smooth this stuff out.

Another MAJOR thing is inducing noise into the output. This is not just for USB cards, but all audio solutions. You need some pretty good filtering between the digital and analog power domains -- yet another area where cheap sound can skimp. Hey, let's shave $0.05 off by dropping this capacitor and inductor!

The original article really touches on two separate areas:
1) Audio processing
2) Higher quality audio circuitry

SoundBlaster (and other gaming-oriented cards) typically do both. However, do you really NEED both? The audio processing stuff is supposed to provide an API that games can use to make thing sound more realistic, or offload audio processing from software to hardware, or both. It can typically decode various dolby flavors, and do some other fancy DSP-ish type stuff. Do you really NEED all of that? If so, then maybe a gaming card is for you.

However, what if you want the best sound possible, the lowest noise possible, and don't really game or use the various audio enhancements? You just want a plain-vanilla sound card, but with the highest quality audio. Where to do? Skip the computer store, but go to your local MUSIC store (not the ones that sell CD's, the ones that sell GUITARS). Those cards skip all of the DSP bells and whistles, but have the best-quality DACs and filtering that you can find. You can find some really good USB solutions that will blow on-board audio out of the water for about $100 or so. Of course, you can go crazy and spend $500 or more if you want. If it is good enough for a music producer to use in a studio (who makes his or her living off of the sound), it is probably good enough for YOUR music and movies.

No. No they won't. The clueless will think they are in control of the information flow when in fact, they are not. All of that information will leave their house and reside on someone else's (else's is not a word Firefox? Really? Let's check: http://english.stackexchange.c... stupid Firefox telling me I am wrong.) servers. Once it is on someone else's (fuck you Firefox) server, the clueless no longer control their data regardless of what laws are in place. That data will be used.

But being clueless, they won't understand. Just like they do not understand the NSA domestic surveillance.

I lived even further away than you. Denver. We did not feel anything but we ended up having about an eighth of an inch of ash covering our cars. I am certain of this because I had to clean it off.

I can only imagine what Yellowstone going off is going to be like. I suspect cleaning of cars in Denver is going to be the least of the problems there.

This is all funny to me. I have been vaccinated 4 times for smallpox. Once as a child (thank you modern medicine!) and three times in the past decade (thank god for wiped databases :( ).

Every single time it has left a permanent scar as your post says. Every single time in the past decade, it has made me feel like crap for at least a week, sometimes two weeks. Every single time, dealing with a live virus on the skin has been a HUGE pain in the ass. Thankfully, I have never had any actual severe adverse reactions. I will probably get vaccinated again soon though. Wheeeeeee. Here is hoping that incompetence does not kill me through overzealous vaccinations. :P

I guess I should be happy that it is probably literally impossible to kill me with known biological agents... but sometimes, the cure is almost as bad as the disease.

Huh? It is ENTIRELY her boyfriend's fault. He tied her up, pulled off all of her clothes and forced her at gunpoint to pose for those pictures. She has no responsiblity at all in this situation.

See how stupid it looks to try and shoehorn in blame games where they do not belong?

Yes, the boyfriend who shared those pics is a dick. Criminal? I am not a lawyer, but definitely a dick. Guess what? He would have never had those pics if she did not consent to taking them or giving them to him. That implies that she has a part to play in this too. Is defining the parts such a problem for you or is everything a crime against women who are always just helpless victims and deserve all of your stuff when they decide to leave you after a relationship?

Rock on.

I would say you are 100% correct - in the Android ecosystem. I am exactly the same; I have a relatively new Nexus 4 and before that I had a Nexus One that I used until it was basically a painful experience because it just kept running out of space.

The N5 is basically the same phone and there's not a lot the Samsungs offer that interest me.

But Apple has a different model - they don't have thousands of different options. It's just one new model every couple years. They have a prestige associated with the iPhone that has almost /nothing/ to do with what the phone can actually do - it's just about having the new phone.

Most of the people I know who live in the iPhone world are largely non-technical types. With few exceptions they all want to be on the latest version - baffling to me as someone that actually looks at features.

Maybe this will taper off but so far I think Apple are just killing it.

Look man, this is getting old. Yes, living in your fantasy world would be great. I will be helping to build the possibility that such a world exists because I want to get there too. BUT

Is where all of this started. I merely wanted clarification on WHO you meant as being criminals. Apparently, it is everyone who makes more than they need. I disagree strongly. Everyone who creates their wealth is NOT a criminal, even if it is infinitely more than what they need.

The majority of the resources in the world are tied up by a very small "group" of people. This causes problems as there are almost no resources left for others. This is not an "earned" thing. It is a theft by power thing. As such, I would agree with you calling them criminals; however, at that level, we are no longer talking about street level morality, we are talking more "law of the jungle" type stuff. The street level morality stuff is to keep us from getting together and taking the resources back from them.

If you want to steal from Johnny Depp or Warren Buffet, you are a moron. They earned their money. They created their wealth. You are directly harming the world by taking from them.

If you want to steal from the Bush Family (as a valid example) then you are smart. They stole 3 trillion dollars and collapsed the Savings and Loan industry (yes Neil, I remember even if you can pay to have people scrub your name from history). They are liars and thieves... and relatively small ones at that!

Honestly, there is no simple and easy answer, such as stealing back from the Bush Family. Ultimately, it is about power and control. There is a drive within most everyone to be absolute ruler of the world. Some people are fairly close to achieving that; others, not so much. Some are not even trying. Regardless, when focusing on control, other things such as fairness and equality are nowhere to be found, which is the situation we find ourselves in currently. That is why despite the wealth of the world increasing in a jaw dropping manner, very few people get to actually see or touch that wealth. 35 billion dollars? LOL, chump change.

What is funny is that the bank accounts of these people who would control the world are all relatively small. 200m in visible wealth is an abnormality. Who needs money when you control trillions of dollars worth of resources and industry? Who needs to buy a personal jet when you own a controlling interest in a company that owns a dozen or more jets? Ownership of such trinkets is considered a sign of being one of the "hired help".

In short, you have no idea what you are fighting against. You sense inequality, see some wealth, and attack... not realizing that the wealth that you are attacking is legitimately earned. You think you are helping the world but in reality, you are an agent of evil, working towards the enslavement of humanity. All for something good, yes. But enslavement nevertheless.

Meh. I am done with this. I will not respond any further. Have a nice day. :)

I have no idea but an F18 can. I found this link that essentially backs up what I remember.

http://www.aircraftresourcecen...

I read about it in a Navy Safety magazine that I can not remember the name of now. Flightline? Regardless, the story is even more intense than what that web page shows.

One pilots radios in for an emergency landing and ATC grants permission. The second pilot radios in for emergency landing and ATC tells him he has to go to a different airfield because they are dealing with an emergency already... and the second pilot lands anyways because there is no way he is making it to another field. It is absolutely amazing that both pilots not merely lived, but landed their planes safely. Just wow.

The pilot of the plane that had half of a wing missing had no idea half of his wing was gone until he landed and saw the destruction (apparently, he was more interested in landing than surveying all of the damage while in flight). The avionics compensated for all of that damage. Amazing.

It is because humans appear to be pre-programmed to help innocent young children out. Predators realize this and play to it all the time. "Think of the children" is an attempt to short circuit logic on the victim by the predator. Sometimes, it is not a predator but someone who has been victimized by such a predator before and apes the behavior in the hopes of eliciting similar results... not realizing that it makes them a predator too.

Regardless, any time I see this crap. I tell myself, "burn them all". It is hard and it hurts but when I see the situation logically again, I understand that bending rules in one situation leads to bent rules everywhere and then everything is all fucked up again and even larger numbers of people, children included, get hurt or die.

At first blush, I thought that I agreed with you. A moment of thought brought some nagging doubts to my mind...

Crime does not occur simply because there is opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities for crime that are never taken. Yes, opportunity does play a, significant I believe, role, but it is not a determining factor except that if there is no opportunity, there is no crime.

Whatever drives the need or desire for crime is the thing that makes criminals look for opportunities. Increasing the need or desire for crime, I suspect, would provide an incentive for a criminal to learn new techniques if their normal opportunities are not not available; therefore, a secure operating system along with a consistent need or desire for crime may indeed push a virus writer into learning social engineering as well.

Weird.

Sounds like the stock market. Futures or Commodities.

Voluntary charity is fine. There is nothing wrong with it and even if there were something wrong with it, it is not up to me to decide what you do or do not do (generally speaking. I will stop you from actively hurting others and such).

Interpret however you want. I do not care. Some will die. I know what you are trying to get at and I reject it in its entirety. Almost two years ago to the day, I was facing a situation to where I could not feed myself. Did I whine or complain or try to force others to help me? No. I was prepared to lay down in my living room and die. Your next argument will be, "see? someone must have helped you or you would be dead right now.", and my response is I owe nobody anything. I have, and do help people. It is purely at my discretion if I help, and if so, how much help I give. Again, I owe nothing to everyone/anyone.

You assume he is required to justify his hoarding. Who is requiring this justification? Clearly, it is YOU. I agree with you that if he is hoarding it only for the purpose of ensuring others suffer, he would be a very bad person. If he is hoarding it to maintain his security in this world, as long as he earned it or created it himself, then I see no problems with that... even if *I* am the one starving. Your or my suffering does not place any a priori obligations on anyone else. Your life is yours. It is up to you to maintain it or not. My life is mine. It is up to me to maintain it, or not. Nobody else is obliged in any way concerning these issues. Yes, it is nice to help others. No, it is NOT an obligation.

There is already enough food and power in the world to give to everyone. Why would anyone generate more? There is no incentive to do so. As soon as their is an incentive, more food and more power will be generated. Unfortunately for your ideals, incentive in this case generally means transfer of wealth. If you have nothing to offer, nobody is willing to give anything. It sucks for the starving people in Africa who live under a dictator who steal all of the food aid, but what are you going to do? March in with an Army and steal money from Johnny Depp to feed them?

When it gets to that level of food availability then sure. However, even with an overabundance of food, if you take food directly from someone's plate instead of getting up and walking over to the food dispenser yourself, I strongly suspect you will still end up suffering. Even when food is free, the effort to go and grab it is still an effort. Effort which I will not give away willingly. Go get your own plate and push your own damned button and stop taking the food off of my plate. I did not push the button and walk 15 feet so you could sit there and take the food off of my plate.

Do you understand?

No. No you do not get it. I would be getting worked up because the dinner guests were too lazy to operate their own lungs and were requiring me to pump their lungs for them.

Erm, gathering and hoarding resources is NOT about filling your stomach for one day. It is about controlling your environment. If I have lots of food or other resources, I can trade them for various things like having large groups of people to defend my body or for spaceship fuel to go visit the stars, or hire scientists to research genetic manipulation, or... well, anything. Why would *I* give up that control? I would be insane to do so. Yes, some people will starve without the availability of the resources that I have hoarded. It sucks to be them. They should go gather their own resources instead of looking at mine. My work is not free for the taking as much as you and some other folks want it to be. You can use all of the moral arguments in the world or try to tug at my heart about babies dying and all I will say is, "sucks to be you."

There are a LOT of caveats with that, but I generally agree. The real question is how can it be done. If it requires taking even the smallest thing from someone else, you are wrong. It is better to die than to force slavery onto others. Heh, that reminds me of Patrick Henry: Give me liberty or give me death! Another forwards backwards truism. :)

Honestly, what you want sounds incredibly awesome in theory. In the real world, what it boils down to is enforced slavery and whenever someone finds themselves in control of such a situation, the resources end up not being allocated to everyone anyways. Just stop. What you dream of will never happen until their are fully autonomous robots harvesting raw material from outside of the planet and the ability to transform those raw materials into any other configuration required. Until then, all you advocate is theft and slavery. So really, just stop.