I think this is what displayport is trying to accomplish

Maybe they bought those set of tires from the Russians ;)

I don't understand... can you provide a car analogy for me?

Given the weather you guys had this year in the states, I would rather stay here in Canada (Calgary). Other than a couple of cold days in December (-30 C), its been a relatively balmy winter (near melting temps throughout January). I pity the people in Vancouver though as they don't have much snow for the Olympics.

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Vancouver+Olympics+could+face+lack+snow+Accuweather/2102994/story.html

I think the Chinese could do this by ensuring that the USB, computer, firewall, etc were made by them, and ensuring there was a hidden pipe through all those channels. This would only work in certain scenarios, and I doubt that they would try it until they could guarantee that a customer would be using all compromised equipment.

I wouldn't be surpised if they are trying something like this and selling as a packaged deal (computer + servers + routers + switches + etc) to big corporate US that has R&D that they are interested in but can't get their hands on because that US corp is hesitant to set up a shop in China.

Good point. Mod the parent up for it.

Problem with that logic on windows 7 is that "My documents" are stored in the "c:\users\xxxxxx\Documents" folder. Now the hacker needs to figure out what the xxxxx is.

Maybe this is different under windows 7 (or any other version) when the computer is not on a domain.

That's why double-click and google-analytics are on my blocked no-script list.

Not sure about the cost benefit is worth it on storing data in MS Access over SQL Server or Oracle.

I don't usually have a problem with the business using MS Access as a front-end app for these scenarios, but there is nothing but grief over the quality or reliability of the data when storing it in Access.

I strongly believe the business owns the data, and IT owns the infrastructure for hosting that data. So, if the business wants to have the data available 99.999% and not have issues with concurrency and reliability, then our job in IT is to ensure we use the technologies to get them there.

The business shouldn't care what IT uses for its infrastructure as long as they have access to their data and costs are within budget and its maintainable. And by getting MS Access off the desktops, then the business will save money on licensing, but I imagine that they will keep Access and use ODBC to hook into the SQL or Oracle afterwards, but at least I can control who and how they access it (read / write).

Here's some citation for you and I hope MS is listening because I am frustrated.

I have a problem with MS Access's Ribbon. This is the first time in years I had to touch the product and I spent an hour looking for the "compact and repair" feature to fix a corrupted database. One would figure that such a tool should be under the "Database Tools", but no, they decide to put it under the orb.

Another one ribbon feature that irks me me is the "switch windows". It seems to me that I have more mouse clicks to get there, than using the previous menu option. And the alt+w +1-9 doesn't work anymore.

In MS Word, using the styles ribbon is a PITA. And I never understood in an office suite where all the products are made by the same company why when I open up multiple spreadsheets I can't have them side-by-side like I can in Word. I know that you can get them split, but the point is that Excel acts differently than the other office products in this manner.

I have to use this office suite at work, but am in the process of convincing the business to port all the MS Access apps into something more robust. Not sure what decisions were made in having enterprise applications created in Access, but they are paying for it with databases that get corrupted, concurrent users issues, no real DB transactions, and the nice 2 GB limits on size, but that's a different story. I will be so happy when I can get rid of Access from the enterprise desktops.

But, they'll figure that one out eventually. How about leaving all the 0's as 0's and switching the 1's to 0's. That should do the trick ;)

What's to say that you can't get a VM that emulates a x86 instead on this box?

In their privacy policy
http://www1.tynt.com/privacy-policy

They don't allow anyone to opt out of their "service" either. I guess if you want something from one of their customers, then maybe heading to a competitor would be smarter choice.

Yeah, I definitely would tap that... unfortunately, I doubt that she'd tap me :(

And if I was a terrorist then I would be recruiting teenagers, which would be probably easier to polarize (and brain-wash) them would than an adult.

I don't see any way out of this, and exempting a group based on age would only encourage the bad people of the world to exploit them.