"It's a good thing people generally like working here"
At my company, we've gone through two names since 2000 and went from a people loving company to a "people at the top" loving company. I've noticed that even though they've tried to tighten security, less people actually care about security so even though they've tried to close holes, they lost thier company wide security net. There isn't a single employee in my building that gives a rats arse about physical security outside of thier own tools/stuff.
When I was hired, people would ask where I worked, and that sort of thing. Although it might not be intentionally a security question, it would've caught me if I didn't belong. Now, new hires wander around without anyone ever asking them anything.
Pretty much any type of tools. ESPECIALLY telephone buttsets. My dad worked for a phone company for a long time, and if he had a telephone buttset, nobody every questioned his credentials, or took a second thought about letting him into anywhere in a building. Locked door? Just ask someone to open it for you!
Clipboard. If you got a clip board, people are AFRAID to question you. A coworker of mine visited a major plant once, and the employees mistook him for a CEO or something like that because he had a clipboard.
Suit and tie. People will assume you're a rep of a visiting company and will give you directions.
The best locks in the world won't do any good if someone trusted opens it for an attacker.
Make the companies (and thier owners) liable for the cost of fixing the PCs they infect, and allow people to take these companies to court over the cost of repairing thier PCs.
People on slashdot could hire eachother at $50/hr to fix eachother's PCs. And setup a revenue stream of about $200/week each. Even if 1% of 1% do it, with 1,000,000 PCs, that means that 100 people are sucking down a total of $20,000/week. I doubt the ad revenue from infecting 1M PCs is $1M/year.
...and the ONLY proof that I would get of a license is that piece of paper. MS actively discourages manufacturers sending out CDs. So that can't be used as proof. The reciept? How many people keep those forever. Besides, I ordered it online, so the only reciept would be the packing slip. The sticker on the side of the case? Well, if the sticker on the paper with a bunch of legalease isn't enough, why would it being on a painted piece of sheet metal be enough?
They are worried that it may set a precident of viewers having more control over what they watch! Can you imagine if they had this attitude back when VHS was coming around? Think of all those people that recorded shows instead of watching it at 10:30PM!
The reason I was saying shielded wallets, is that it is something people are used to. You show someone your driver's license, you open your wallet. You show someone your passport, you open it up. You need to use your credit card, you open your wallet up (you just don't have to actually pull it out anymore). It's a simple action that can be done easily, and in most cases, 90% of the work (pulling it out of your pocket) is done anyways.
Walk upto toll reader, pull out "wallet", open up as you walk by, close it, stick back in pocket.
Simple, easy, fast, and doesn't require training or retooling of the infrastructure.
What is really needed for security applications that use RFID is a kind of shielded wallet, that when an RFID tag is placed inside would keep the RFID tag from being read. Preferably one that could carry multiple cards and such. When you want something to be able to read it, you open it up. When you don't, you close it.
I don't think many people carry thier credit cards out in the open.
You fight fire with water. Fighting fire with fire will just make the fire bigger unless it's very well directed fire.
So if you're gonna fight the spam fire with fire, use live fire. Or use water. Like from a firehose into thier systems. Motherboards LOVE "direct liquid cooling".
The UK has a generally cooler temperature than a large portion of the US. Typically bacteria and viruses like to be at around body temperature, which is a rather warm 98.6F/37C. If I remember correctly, London has a record high of 96F. London is forcasted to reach a high of 21C/70F today, where I live is slated to be 79F. The hot, humid weather of the American southeast is much more condusive to diseases than any place in England.
Say a venue can fit 10,000 people. Many can. $50 ticket prices would bring in $500,000 of gross revenue per night. Lets just say for the sake of argument that this is a break even point, the artist and the producer doesn't make money. So they decide to charge $250. That's an extra $2,000,000/night in pure profit....someone needs a new Bugatti.
I regularly take place in online communities from many different countries and continents, seperating the internet would fracture these communities to tiny groups which wouldn't have a point to existing.
The internet is, as I see it, the biggest social step from being a couple hundred countries to becoming a world. The internet allows the social interaction to reach the level of economic interaction, and then proceed to push both further. Fracturing the internet would undo what I see as progress towards a world with less important boarders. Some day, country lines may be what state lines currently are.
Example: a mechanic using it to interface with a car's OBD port. He's not going to be writing to the HD a while lot, but you know damned well that it's not going to be treated lightly. 32GB is pleanty large to put and OS and the diagnostic/tuning apps on.
Make that laptop low enough power to plug into a cigarette lighter and you got a nice tool.
Another example: Some geologist needs to take data off of some geophones in the middle of places with names like "Desolation Wilderness". A laptop with a longer battery life and a HD that is going to survive being in a backpack is going to make things alot easier. Hiking out 10 miles to the middle of nowhere isn't something that you want to have to re-do because something broke or you ran out of battery life.
I don't forsee anyone having one at the next LAN party. Though given the number of people with hilarious setups, it could happen. Afterall, who'd buy a 150GB HD that cost $350? (WD Raptor)
"Anyway, I don't see how Marvel/DC can claim a trademark on a word that has been in the popular lexicon for over fifty years."
I'm sure words like Word, Excel, Office, and Windows have been in use for more than fifty years and that didn't seem to slow things up too much.
Some games don't need plots.
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When I saw reviews of games like Metropolis Street Racer, having people complain about the lack of plot, I just had to say "WTF?". It's a racing game. The only plot I care about is the land that the track is on.
If I ever see someone complain that Tetris doesn't have a plot, I don't know when the beating will end.
Are you playing the same game that I am?
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"Level maps allow for occasional stealth moments, but for the most part you'll know there are enemies about because they start shooting at you."...after level three, I had taken down 345 enemies, 161 with head shots. And I'm not good at first person shooters when the shooting gets quick. If you proceed carefully, you can sneak up on the enemy more often than not. Scout out where they are. And the graphics are quite nice.
Basically, every single driver's ed/traffic school course taught me that just getting your license is basically signing that you accept that any law enforcement officer can search your car.
IMO, it's not right, but nobody has enough money to fight it.
There was one instance that I saw on Cops or something like that, where some guy's ex girlfriend called in an anonymous tip to the cops saying a guy had drugs, the guy just finished packing to move. They made him unpack everything that he owned while they looked. No warrent needed.
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Bring along a partner, a transit, and a large pole and you could act as surveyors and loiter anywhere all day. That includes the middle of a street.
"It's a good thing people generally like working here"
At my company, we've gone through two names since 2000 and went from a people loving company to a "people at the top" loving company. I've noticed that even though they've tried to tighten security, less people actually care about security so even though they've tried to close holes, they lost thier company wide security net. There isn't a single employee in my building that gives a rats arse about physical security outside of thier own tools/stuff.
When I was hired, people would ask where I worked, and that sort of thing. Although it might not be intentionally a security question, it would've caught me if I didn't belong. Now, new hires wander around without anyone ever asking them anything.
Pretty much any type of tools. ESPECIALLY telephone buttsets. My dad worked for a phone company for a long time, and if he had a telephone buttset, nobody every questioned his credentials, or took a second thought about letting him into anywhere in a building. Locked door? Just ask someone to open it for you!
Clipboard. If you got a clip board, people are AFRAID to question you. A coworker of mine visited a major plant once, and the employees mistook him for a CEO or something like that because he had a clipboard.
Suit and tie. People will assume you're a rep of a visiting company and will give you directions.
The best locks in the world won't do any good if someone trusted opens it for an attacker.
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summ ary.jsp?code=MR2A16A&srch=1
"The MR2A16A is a 4,194,304-bit magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device organized as 262,144 words of 16 bits"
Not ready for PC time yet.
Make the companies (and thier owners) liable for the cost of fixing the PCs they infect, and allow people to take these companies to court over the cost of repairing thier PCs.
People on slashdot could hire eachother at $50/hr to fix eachother's PCs. And setup a revenue stream of about $200/week each. Even if 1% of 1% do it, with 1,000,000 PCs, that means that 100 people are sucking down a total of $20,000/week. I doubt the ad revenue from infecting 1M PCs is $1M/year.
...and the ONLY proof that I would get of a license is that piece of paper. MS actively discourages manufacturers sending out CDs. So that can't be used as proof. The reciept? How many people keep those forever. Besides, I ordered it online, so the only reciept would be the packing slip. The sticker on the side of the case? Well, if the sticker on the paper with a bunch of legalease isn't enough, why would it being on a painted piece of sheet metal be enough?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4566319.stm
:)
Enjoy.
They are worried that it may set a precident of viewers having more control over what they watch! Can you imagine if they had this attitude back when VHS was coming around? Think of all those people that recorded shows instead of watching it at 10:30PM!
Burn karma, burn.
The reason I was saying shielded wallets, is that it is something people are used to. You show someone your driver's license, you open your wallet. You show someone your passport, you open it up. You need to use your credit card, you open your wallet up (you just don't have to actually pull it out anymore). It's a simple action that can be done easily, and in most cases, 90% of the work (pulling it out of your pocket) is done anyways.
Walk upto toll reader, pull out "wallet", open up as you walk by, close it, stick back in pocket.
Simple, easy, fast, and doesn't require training or retooling of the infrastructure.
What is really needed for security applications that use RFID is a kind of shielded wallet, that when an RFID tag is placed inside would keep the RFID tag from being read. Preferably one that could carry multiple cards and such. When you want something to be able to read it, you open it up. When you don't, you close it.
I don't think many people carry thier credit cards out in the open.
You fight fire with water. Fighting fire with fire will just make the fire bigger unless it's very well directed fire.
So if you're gonna fight the spam fire with fire, use live fire. Or use water. Like from a firehose into thier systems. Motherboards LOVE "direct liquid cooling".
I can get a 25 pack of Ritek 2.4x DL +R disks for $30.
No, I'm not talking pollution and such.
The UK has a generally cooler temperature than a large portion of the US. Typically bacteria and viruses like to be at around body temperature, which is a rather warm 98.6F/37C. If I remember correctly, London has a record high of 96F. London is forcasted to reach a high of 21C/70F today, where I live is slated to be 79F. The hot, humid weather of the American southeast is much more condusive to diseases than any place in England.
And here I thought that we kept all our lobbyists tied up with DC and off the internet.
Say a venue can fit 10,000 people. Many can. $50 ticket prices would bring in $500,000 of gross revenue per night. Lets just say for the sake of argument that this is a break even point, the artist and the producer doesn't make money. So they decide to charge $250. That's an extra $2,000,000/night in pure profit. ...someone needs a new Bugatti.
I regularly take place in online communities from many different countries and continents, seperating the internet would fracture these communities to tiny groups which wouldn't have a point to existing.
The internet is, as I see it, the biggest social step from being a couple hundred countries to becoming a world. The internet allows the social interaction to reach the level of economic interaction, and then proceed to push both further. Fracturing the internet would undo what I see as progress towards a world with less important boarders. Some day, country lines may be what state lines currently are.
Ruggedized applications.
Example: a mechanic using it to interface with a car's OBD port.
He's not going to be writing to the HD a while lot, but you know damned well that it's not going to be treated lightly. 32GB is pleanty large to put and OS and the diagnostic/tuning apps on.
Make that laptop low enough power to plug into a cigarette lighter and you got a nice tool.
Another example: Some geologist needs to take data off of some geophones in the middle of places with names like "Desolation Wilderness". A laptop with a longer battery life and a HD that is going to survive being in a backpack is going to make things alot easier. Hiking out 10 miles to the middle of nowhere isn't something that you want to have to re-do because something broke or you ran out of battery life.
I don't forsee anyone having one at the next LAN party. Though given the number of people with hilarious setups, it could happen. Afterall, who'd buy a 150GB HD that cost $350? (WD Raptor)
"Anyway, I don't see how Marvel/DC can claim a trademark on a word that has been in the popular lexicon for over fifty years."
I'm sure words like Word, Excel, Office, and Windows have been in use for more than fifty years and that didn't seem to slow things up too much.
When I saw reviews of games like Metropolis Street Racer, having people complain about the lack of plot, I just had to say "WTF?". It's a racing game. The only plot I care about is the land that the track is on.
If I ever see someone complain that Tetris doesn't have a plot, I don't know when the beating will end.
"Level maps allow for occasional stealth moments, but for the most part you'll know there are enemies about because they start shooting at you." ...after level three, I had taken down 345 enemies, 161 with head shots. And I'm not good at first person shooters when the shooting gets quick. If you proceed carefully, you can sneak up on the enemy more often than not. Scout out where they are. And the graphics are quite nice.
Remember, tracers work both ways.
My IP is 127.0.0.1. :)
Basically, every single driver's ed/traffic school course taught me that just getting your license is basically signing that you accept that any law enforcement officer can search your car.
IMO, it's not right, but nobody has enough money to fight it.
There was one instance that I saw on Cops or something like that, where some guy's ex girlfriend called in an anonymous tip to the cops saying a guy had drugs, the guy just finished packing to move. They made him unpack everything that he owned while they looked. No warrent needed.
In California, your car can be searched at any time for any reason if you are on public roads.
You can say no, but that won't do you any good.
I had an instructor that was in the Air Force and had a friend that worked in area 51. He made the following statement:
"What is there is man made, but he'll die before he says what it is."
Look at the PSP's list of games worth getting, then look at the DS's.