Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 2) 394
And less money for education, infrastructure, social services, ....
Comment Re:In fact..... (Score 1) 173
NPR? Why? As a non-American, it seems like NPR is somewhat akin to the BBC, despite the lack of significant financial support from the state. Given that it is propped up by funding drives, and seems to attract criticism from both sides of the US political spectrum, it seems to be doing a good job of justifying its existence and avoiding partisanship.
Like the BBC, it seems NPR is also being cowed by those who are too easily offended.
Comment Everything, where possible (Score 1) 261
I've enabled full disk encryption on everything, purely to reduce the scope for problems to occur if we get burgled.
Comment Unable to vote in my locality (Score 1) 390
I'm working on a non-immigrant visa. Due to my working life, for the last 6 years I've not been resident in a country where I can vote.
Comment Re:PIN Codes (Score 4, Informative) 241
Oddly, in the UK and Europe, full service is available without having to scrawl on a piece of paper. The whole paper/pen thing is replaced by a portable device for handling the card payment.
I had serious trouble using my US visa card in the UK because there was no chip, and they won't accept cards without chips in most places now.
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 413
Use VNC, LogMeIn, TeamViewer or similar and run it on a dedicated Windows session remotely? That's worked very nicely for me here on an iPad 2.
Comment See-through flash still a problem? (Score 1) 88
Wonder if they have fixed their flash implementation so that it stops randomly turning that part of a web page into a window through to applications/windows behind Chrome....
This is my biggest problem with the browser on OS X, and I wish I could find a way to reproduce it reliably.
Comment Re:The Whole Premise is Flawed (Score 2) 487
I've not yet RTFA, but your statement seems like a sweeping generalisation and overlooks other possibilities. In various industries, a doctorate is a pre-requisite for most roles (e.g. semiconductor engineering). You might just squeeze in with a Masters degree, but more often a Ph.D. is required to even get your foot in the door.
Given the erosion of standards for 'regular' degrees (B.Sc., B.Eng., etc.), the demand for a higher degree is easier to understand. You'll get more applicants as a result.
What I find interesting is the ability to study a highly technical field, get a Ph.D. and then find next to no employers in that field within the country. That's what I ran into in the UK - by the time I was out of the Ph.D. grind, the relevant employers had all left for greener shores. I had to follow them. As a result, the UK has benefited very little from the expenditure on my education.
Even before undertaking my Ph.D., it was very clear that working in academia was not going to be my thing. The lack of resources and funds stood in stark contrast to the facilities available for similar R&D within companies. Having to fight for funding every n years was far from appealing.
This is from a UK-perspective, but I hear similar concerns from those in the US.
Comment Re:It depends (Score 1) 283
Possibly to be considered NSFW
Comment Re:For some reason (Score 1) 156
Comment Re:microsoft bob chat (Score 2, Funny) 223
Guess they didn't catch them all yet.
Submission + - Apple relaxes iOS development tool restrictions 1
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this year Apple caused major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers, meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Apple has just significantly relaxed that policy and allowed for the use of development tools, as long as "the resulting apps do not download any code".
Submission + - Hibernation file a new potential threat. 3
An anonymous reader writes: Matthieu Suiche writes:
For Windows 2000, Microsoft provides a feature called Hibernation also know as suspend to disk that aims to save the system state into an undocumented file called hiberfil.sys. This file contains all the physical memory saved by the Operating System and aims to be restored by the user the next time the computer is powered on. Live forensics analysis is used to use physical memory dump to recover information on the targeted machine. One of the main problems is to obtain a readable physical memory dump, hibernation is an efficient way to save and load physical memory. Hibernation analysis has notable advantages. System activity is totally frozen, therefore coherent data is acquired and no software tool is able to block the analysis. The system is left perfectly functional after analysis, with no side effects.
The hibernation file opens two valuable doors: The first one is (live?) forensics analysis for defensive computing. Hibernation is an efficient and easy way to get a physical memory dump. But the main issue about it was: How to read the hiberfil.sys? That's how the idea of SandMan born. The second one is a new concept we will be introduced and called "offensics" which is a portmanteau from "offensive" and "forensics". If we can read hiberfil.sys, can we rewrite it? The answer is: Yes, with SandMan you can.
SandMan is an open-source framework which makes readable and writable the undocumented windows hibernation file. The author said that 32bits hibernation file "from Windows XP to Windows 2008 Server" are supported yet. Then, it's now possible to retrieve keys/hash used by cryptographic softwares present in memory if they are present during the hibernation process. Furthermore, internal structures mapped in memory which contains information like "application privilege rights" can be modified too though the hibernation file.
Submission + - Ubuntu vs Fedora vs OpenSuSE vs Mandriva (lugradio.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Its been a good few weeks for distro releases with Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mandriva all releasing new versions but which ones best? The Lugradio team talk to Adam Williamson from Mandriva then don asbestos suits and put all four through a series of real world tests. Find out which came out best and which just suck here
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