Richard Pieri wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
Strictly an automatic screen lock/unlock. But nice. A step in the right
direction.
Until someone steals your phone
All security measures have a finite space of effectiveness. What are the
attack vectors you are trying to guard against?
Remember
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselves. On the
whole, however, the amount of good that unions do far outweigh the few
Monty
On 04/18/2012 05:23 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote:
R. Luoma wrote:
For some for the recent distros (e.g. ubuntu)
I am having difficulty figuring out how to kill
the GUI login and have the old-fashion
text-terminal-like login screen.
Does anyone have helpful advice
on how to set up a
A while back I made a couple of changes to the default grub.cnf
(/etc/default/grub). All well and good, but at some point when I ran
grub2-mkconfig I had a friend's old Windows drive and grub2-mkconfig
picked up both the XP boot and the Dell utilities. So now when I reboot,
I get my 3 Linux
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:54:51AM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
in yesteryear, when i plugged a camera into my computer, the
camera files would show up under /mnt, then later under
/media, then under ~/.gvfs. now,
On 4/19/2012 7:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselves. On the
whole, however, the amount of good that
On 04/19/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 4/19/2012 7:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselves. On
On 04/19/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 4/19/2012 7:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselves. On
On 4/19/2012 2:13 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
Sure, doable, but until you can pick up a pair of turn-key Bluetooth
extender transceivers mail order from China, not likely. If you're
protecting something valuable enough to justify that effort, you don't
want to be relying on Bluetooth proximity.
The
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:05:18PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 4/19/2012 2:13 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
Really? There's evidence this has been pulled off more than once? How do
they get the transceiver near the owner without being noticed? Who is
building the transceivers?
Home-made:
More details:
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/11/program.shtml#id2a
Relay Attacks on Passive Keyless Entry and Start Systems in Modern
Cars
Aurelien Francillon, Boris Danev, and Srdjan Capkun
We demonstrate relay attacks on Passive Keyless Entry and Start
(PKES) systems used in
On 04/19/2012 07:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
The IT industry is fairly well paid slave labor. I mean, working on
week-ends, no-notice late nights, vacations that have to be canceled
because of sudden problems. All without any compensation. When was the
last time you REALLY worked 40 hours.
http://openxcplatform.com/
What is OpenXC?
OpenXC is an API to your car - by installing a small hardware module
to read and translate metrics from a car's internal network, the data
becomes accessible from most Android applications using the OpenXC
library.
I'm beginning to think
Richard Pieri wrote:
The transceivers don't need to be Bluetooth. They just need to operate
on the same frequencies that Bluetooth uses.
I got that. It doesn't make the task of building the transceiver easier,
unless you happen to be an analog RF engineer. It may even make the job
harder to
Mark Woodward wrote:
...the union in my view was a positive force for his industry.
I think capitalism is at its best when you hit upon the right set of
rules that result in self-regulating systems. From an abstract, academic
perspective, the aspect of unions that feels wrong is that they are
Tom Metro wrote:
| Mark Woodward wrote:
| ...the union in my view was a positive force for his industry.
|
| I think capitalism is at its best when you hit upon the right set of
| rules that result in self-regulating systems. From an abstract, academic
| perspective, the aspect of unions that
Mark Woodward wrote:
An engineering union, could be a good move for the industry. It would
certainly provide some push back against abusive contracts and NDAs.
Lets put aside the question of whether a software engineering union is a
good idea, or whether it is practical for it to be widely
On Wed,Apr 18 08:36:AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I wrote this on slashdot, and was wondering if you guys have an opinion.
I come from a blue-collar background, my dad was a union iron
worker. Trust me, there is a valuable skill set there. Strong guys
who can weld, lift heavy equipment, and
unions are not perfect, but what is?
not all unions are like the teamsters. just like not all management is
like ken lewis.
without unions don't conditions for workers just get worse? while some
management teams understand that taking care of their workers is taking
care of the business,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:51:56PM -0400, john saylor wrote:
without unions don't conditions for workers just get worse?
Do they? I have never been unionized, and my working conditions have
either remained the same or improved over the 20 years or so I've been
working in technology, depending
Union have had their place, and some times they may have use today.
Unions came about when employers were abusing employees.
More resent history have employees abusing employers.
If we all played nice like we were taught in kindergarten, none of that
and lawyers wouldn't be necessary.
Instead,
hi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:51:56PM -0400, john saylor wrote:
isn't the union movement on life support in this country?
On 04/19/2012 05:34 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
I don't know, is it?
yes it is.
btw, your mother's union experiences are interesting- but they are only
one tiny sample.
j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
| In essence (but not really) a union is an employee owned corporation
| whose sole service is outsourced labor. In an idealized market, there
| should be multiple labor corporations for any given type of labor, not
| only one.
Hey, I know! We
On Apr 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, john saylor wrote:
how do workers stand up for their rights without unions?
I'm going to comment on this because this does affect all of us. Or most of
us, the ones who work in MA.
Massachusetts is an at will commonwealth. This means that if you work in MA
On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
As I expected, an academic proof of concept.
Only for the more recent types. The early keyless entry systems, the ones that
don't bother with frequency hopping, were more easily abused. RFID is
similarly abusable because it doesn't do any
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:11:12PM -0400, john saylor wrote:
isn't the union movement on life support in this country?
On 04/19/2012 05:34 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
I don't know, is it?
yes it is.
Don't just level baseless assertions; I already don't believe you.
Provide some evidence
I also agree with gaf that the public sector labor unions are the
most detrimental, based on my anecdotal experience. If my company
were to unionize, I would most likely seek alternative employment.
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trouble-with-public-sector-unions
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