Use the chip in the car to have the car tell the pump how much it weighs. A 6,000lb SUV does much more damage to the road than a 2,800lb grocery getter. The only other thing they could add would be to charge more for people driving in high volume areas like downtown where the cost of the construction of bridges is a lot higher.
If everyone that reads Slashdot, would go out and do the deal and then give the laptop they buy to a local area school that needs some help and technology, we would be in pretty good shape. $400 gift that helps local and the world. Does it really get much better than that?
First off, I am betting that the whole thing will be embroiled in troubles with all electronic voting machines and close recounts. I doubt that we will hear an official winner in several states until days or maybe weeks later. Second, suggest getting one of the digital converter boxes and an amplified antenna. Will serve you well for a long time into the future and provide a very good signal even when you normally get static on the old analog over the air. I work for a broadcast group and we have tested digital converter boxes in hard to recieve locations like condos and office buildings with some pretty good success.
Overall I say save the money and wait for the hubub to end after two weeks of the electronic version of hanging chads.
How many people remember the MS method? The team and desingers that made Vista, should be working on Windows 8. If they follow their normal plan, then windows 7 would be XP with some touch ups similar to vista. The code cutover to the next team usually happens during one of the betas, so they had a large part of the next OS done before they released Vista. It may be that they just redress Vista, but more likely it will have some bad traits from XP rather than the bad items from Vista.
I was a serious bit flogger before the days of windows. I used to go into the dos directory and hack the Abort Retry Ignor command so that it looked like latin(Abo Ret Igno). It was also a way to determine if people had been messing with my installs because that was a file that was always overwritten during patch application or reinstalls.
Very true, just like health studies find that people that eat more X are healthier, maybe they were healthier and that is why X tastes better to them. I feel that people are influenced to who they will become by their peers and how they choose how to react to them. One thing that games can teach is trying again and again to attain a goal, and that some people can attain them and some can not.
If that is there, then it should be found in process of scanning for vulnerabilities. I personally do not want the vendor of a purchased application to have a magic key into my computer system.
I doubt that there is a system, besides firing a nuclear weapon, that is able to be configured so that two people always have to agree to a system change. The top level account on any system, network or device will always have the powere to change all other passwords or disable them and then walk away. This is a common item at any time a person is involved. The issue of when a person will snap and if they should be trusted can be examined, but that is not a perfect science since the person may have a problem in their personal life that makes them go over the edge.
All computers would run perfectly forever if they had not users(carbon based units) using them and programming them.
There are ways to create systems and methods to recover from an incedent like that, but since they are fairly rare, the cost/benefit/probability of the risk is hard to sell to management.
Bottom line is absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you have people, you will have people problems. Deal with it or take your ball and go home.
Maybe you have never heard of other phones, but I can tell you that Windows Mobile 6 has forced passwords, encrypted traffic, encrypted local content, the option to encrypt all media cards so you can not copy items off of the phone. Then the real kicker is that your BB server is a hole into the network. With a simple downloaded program, you can telnet anywhere inside your network that your Enterprise Server can see from the screen of your phone. That one makes me not sleep at night.
There are options to secure. The windows mobile will wipe itself after X failed attempts, so even a quick 4 digit pin will be a huge protection(unless everyone uses 1111).
There are lots of options, if you use them all wisely. Iphone is not corporate grade device right now. Very little security, using POP or IMAP to get mail. New version promises a lot and was supposed to be out earlier this year, so I am not holding breath for it.
This is the code from the final puzzel in Myst episode called Riven. Not really, but it looks quite similar in function. Someone who was able to master that game without a guide book would be able to figure this one out in a flash.
RIAA needs to take a step back and look at their business model. Ford used to create cars with bolts and pieces that were so unique that nobody made part for their products except them. That backfired at some point and they started to go with the flow. Musicians need to get a grip on where the money that is paid for their music goes. Reduce the big overhead of managers and promotions people and get back to making music. If you can do live performances and get rid of the ticket brokers overhead, you can make enough to live on with just a few concerts in medium sized venues each year. If you can not perform live, then you best not expect to make a killing in the industry since you probably do not have real talent, but just know someone that can mix down anything and make it sound good.
In most cases, when you make the black market seem more dangerous, and there is still a demand for an item, the illegal market will grow. If CD's were priced to make enough to cover costs of production and a small amount for the musician and composer, they would sell like crazy, especially if there was something that set it apart from the mainstream duplicated junk that is generally available. It is much the way the TV industry has gone, 3 networks with reasonable quality, then it became 200 channels, most of which is not worth burning the screen by playing. Quality will win out in the end, if there is a reasonable distribution method and pricing for it.
I would like to assist them by providing moon shots the next time they pass near my domicile. Please request schedule dates and times for the runs so that I can assist their efforts.
First, if the machines that were relaying the video stream were "taken over" they would be able to trace back the IP of where it was geting the stream. This is pretty trivial for an ISP. Second, they could easily have put up a fake DNS to point people to a different site. Third, the hacker would have little if any idea of how many people were watching the stream if it is comming from some huge farm of compromised machines, unless they were pusing back to an origin point that would be traceable.
I also have been able to hook up a MAC to an alien ship. That was really easy because they were designed by aliens.
Instead of comming up with that new magic device. Just suck all of the RF out of the air in an efficient manner and you can keep all your stuff charged all the time. If someone could invent a device to grab every frequency it sees efficiently, it would be perfect. If you need to charge your PDA, just walk near the kitchen and catch the runaways from the micro. If you need a boost, just sit at Starbucks and steal all the cell phone and WiFi energy. It is almost like a free natural resource!!
Teach what you think will cover the basics of croping color balancing and the like. Most other functions will not be used enough to matter.
If you are going to teach them to put a web page together, have them use NotePad to create the code for the page. They will then never forget to close a set of tags and will become familiar with the actual code and not the fancy help that is provided by the tool.
Have them test their HTML against the W3C site to see if it comes up to the standards. That is the big piece lacking in current web, not using HTML the way it is intended, but being sloppy.
Went to school at local Tech College about 20 years ago. Guy parked a van right outside he building on a sidewalk, came in and took several IBM mainframe terminals on a cart and left. The person who was monitoring the lab helped them load them onto the cart. They were worth about $1,000 each back then. He had overalls that had an IBM logo on it and a big white van. No one said anything until later.
That is the biggest issue for all data and equipment at a corporation. People give out their passwords over the phone to the "IT Department", who should never need it.
People need training, technology can not solve the problem of stupid people.
If you want to ping a range to find all responding machines and open ports, this one rocks. Under 120K, remembers settings and you can config a ton of options. Very useful port scanning tool. Single EXE requires nothing else in windows, you can even link to it directly from their website and run it right in memory, never touch the disk.
http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/
I got my current job through Monster. I would suspect that the people that have posted resume information there would like their information to be made public. This is not like having your bank records made public. If you live somewhere and have a phone, how much more info do you thing is usable in their system? I guess I do not see this as a big deal. If you want your information to be private, do not post it to someplace like monster. BTW, most of the information there can be made private if you choose the right options, so you get a blind email routed through monster to request if you want your information released, so they know that I have some education and maybe the city I live in, but not more than that until I put in a request to release the info to a prospective employer.
The only way that you could protect them from bad content would be to allow content that is registered as being not-bad. The majority of the bad content that they get could come in the form of images, or images of text that would be hard to read by computer (captcha). There is no way to protect children from seeing bad content on TV, Cable or the internet (which is now on their phone). As others above have pointed out, the best way to protect is to arm your children with a sense of what is right and wrong. Spend enough time with them to teach them good and bad, and then sit back and hope it all worked. I have a 21 and a 17 year old at home and they both have gone down the bad path at some point and we have resticted cable and internet to be used in a place that we can look over their shoulder. Not that we do look much, but the youngest knows that we could at any momenent, and that is part of the deal with access.
If the DOJ can secure it so that only valid law enforcement users can access the system, it will be fine. I am sure that most of the data that is in the system is not admissable in court, so they would have to track down the real evidence and not be able to use invalid data that was put into a database of information. It may point the finger at someone, but they will not be convicted based on wrong information in a DOJ file.
Would be an interesting way of distributing albums of MP3's. Would it allow encryption so that you would have to use the original chip to move music to another device? Keep your entire music collection in your wallet?
Some utilities have a rule that they have to buy your extra energy at the same rate that they pay for other utilities to give them extra during high loads. In some areas that would make your windmill actually pay for itself after just a few years.
The state I live in has been trying to put in windmills for the utility, but have been blocked because the huge blades have potentially killed some birds (mostly birds that are not even native to the area). Stopped forward movement until the study of how many birds and what type is completed, which will likely be years.
How about geothermal energy, maybe that will crack the planet in half. Always a drawback to anything that is "free"
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Use the chip in the car to have the car tell the pump how much it weighs. A 6,000lb SUV does much more damage to the road than a 2,800lb grocery getter. The only other thing they could add would be to charge more for people driving in high volume areas like downtown where the cost of the construction of bridges is a lot higher.
If everyone that reads Slashdot, would go out and do the deal and then give the laptop they buy to a local area school that needs some help and technology, we would be in pretty good shape. $400 gift that helps local and the world. Does it really get much better than that?
First off, I am betting that the whole thing will be embroiled in troubles with all electronic voting machines and close recounts. I doubt that we will hear an official winner in several states until days or maybe weeks later. Second, suggest getting one of the digital converter boxes and an amplified antenna. Will serve you well for a long time into the future and provide a very good signal even when you normally get static on the old analog over the air. I work for a broadcast group and we have tested digital converter boxes in hard to recieve locations like condos and office buildings with some pretty good success.
Overall I say save the money and wait for the hubub to end after two weeks of the electronic version of hanging chads.
It is a combination of a dyson sphere and the death star.
How many people remember the MS method? The team and desingers that made Vista, should be working on Windows 8. If they follow their normal plan, then windows 7 would be XP with some touch ups similar to vista. The code cutover to the next team usually happens during one of the betas, so they had a large part of the next OS done before they released Vista. It may be that they just redress Vista, but more likely it will have some bad traits from XP rather than the bad items from Vista.
I was a serious bit flogger before the days of windows. I used to go into the dos directory and hack the Abort Retry Ignor command so that it looked like latin(Abo Ret Igno). It was also a way to determine if people had been messing with my installs because that was a file that was always overwritten during patch application or reinstalls.
Very true, just like health studies find that people that eat more X are healthier, maybe they were healthier and that is why X tastes better to them. I feel that people are influenced to who they will become by their peers and how they choose how to react to them. One thing that games can teach is trying again and again to attain a goal, and that some people can attain them and some can not.
If that is there, then it should be found in process of scanning for vulnerabilities. I personally do not want the vendor of a purchased application to have a magic key into my computer system.
I doubt that there is a system, besides firing a nuclear weapon, that is able to be configured so that two people always have to agree to a system change. The top level account on any system, network or device will always have the powere to change all other passwords or disable them and then walk away. This is a common item at any time a person is involved. The issue of when a person will snap and if they should be trusted can be examined, but that is not a perfect science since the person may have a problem in their personal life that makes them go over the edge.
All computers would run perfectly forever if they had not users(carbon based units) using them and programming them.
There are ways to create systems and methods to recover from an incedent like that, but since they are fairly rare, the cost/benefit/probability of the risk is hard to sell to management.
Bottom line is absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you have people, you will have people problems. Deal with it or take your ball and go home.
Nuff said.
Maybe you have never heard of other phones, but I can tell you that Windows Mobile 6 has forced passwords, encrypted traffic, encrypted local content, the option to encrypt all media cards so you can not copy items off of the phone. Then the real kicker is that your BB server is a hole into the network. With a simple downloaded program, you can telnet anywhere inside your network that your Enterprise Server can see from the screen of your phone. That one makes me not sleep at night.
There are options to secure. The windows mobile will wipe itself after X failed attempts, so even a quick 4 digit pin will be a huge protection(unless everyone uses 1111).
There are lots of options, if you use them all wisely. Iphone is not corporate grade device right now. Very little security, using POP or IMAP to get mail. New version promises a lot and was supposed to be out earlier this year, so I am not holding breath for it.
This is the code from the final puzzel in Myst episode called Riven. Not really, but it looks quite similar in function. Someone who was able to master that game without a guide book would be able to figure this one out in a flash.
RIAA needs to take a step back and look at their business model. Ford used to create cars with bolts and pieces that were so unique that nobody made part for their products except them. That backfired at some point and they started to go with the flow. Musicians need to get a grip on where the money that is paid for their music goes. Reduce the big overhead of managers and promotions people and get back to making music. If you can do live performances and get rid of the ticket brokers overhead, you can make enough to live on with just a few concerts in medium sized venues each year. If you can not perform live, then you best not expect to make a killing in the industry since you probably do not have real talent, but just know someone that can mix down anything and make it sound good.
In most cases, when you make the black market seem more dangerous, and there is still a demand for an item, the illegal market will grow. If CD's were priced to make enough to cover costs of production and a small amount for the musician and composer, they would sell like crazy, especially if there was something that set it apart from the mainstream duplicated junk that is generally available. It is much the way the TV industry has gone, 3 networks with reasonable quality, then it became 200 channels, most of which is not worth burning the screen by playing. Quality will win out in the end, if there is a reasonable distribution method and pricing for it.
I would like to assist them by providing moon shots the next time they pass near my domicile. Please request schedule dates and times for the runs so that I can assist their efforts.
First, if the machines that were relaying the video stream were "taken over" they would be able to trace back the IP of where it was geting the stream. This is pretty trivial for an ISP. Second, they could easily have put up a fake DNS to point people to a different site. Third, the hacker would have little if any idea of how many people were watching the stream if it is comming from some huge farm of compromised machines, unless they were pusing back to an origin point that would be traceable. I also have been able to hook up a MAC to an alien ship. That was really easy because they were designed by aliens.
Instead of comming up with that new magic device. Just suck all of the RF out of the air in an efficient manner and you can keep all your stuff charged all the time. If someone could invent a device to grab every frequency it sees efficiently, it would be perfect. If you need to charge your PDA, just walk near the kitchen and catch the runaways from the micro. If you need a boost, just sit at Starbucks and steal all the cell phone and WiFi energy. It is almost like a free natural resource!!
Teach what you think will cover the basics of croping color balancing and the like. Most other functions will not be used enough to matter.
If you are going to teach them to put a web page together, have them use NotePad to create the code for the page. They will then never forget to close a set of tags and will become familiar with the actual code and not the fancy help that is provided by the tool.
Have them test their HTML against the W3C site to see if it comes up to the standards. That is the big piece lacking in current web, not using HTML the way it is intended, but being sloppy.
Went to school at local Tech College about 20 years ago. Guy parked a van right outside he building on a sidewalk, came in and took several IBM mainframe terminals on a cart and left. The person who was monitoring the lab helped them load them onto the cart. They were worth about $1,000 each back then. He had overalls that had an IBM logo on it and a big white van. No one said anything until later. That is the biggest issue for all data and equipment at a corporation. People give out their passwords over the phone to the "IT Department", who should never need it. People need training, technology can not solve the problem of stupid people.
If you want to ping a range to find all responding machines and open ports, this one rocks. Under 120K, remembers settings and you can config a ton of options. Very useful port scanning tool. Single EXE requires nothing else in windows, you can even link to it directly from their website and run it right in memory, never touch the disk. http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/
I got my current job through Monster. I would suspect that the people that have posted resume information there would like their information to be made public. This is not like having your bank records made public. If you live somewhere and have a phone, how much more info do you thing is usable in their system? I guess I do not see this as a big deal. If you want your information to be private, do not post it to someplace like monster. BTW, most of the information there can be made private if you choose the right options, so you get a blind email routed through monster to request if you want your information released, so they know that I have some education and maybe the city I live in, but not more than that until I put in a request to release the info to a prospective employer.
The only way that you could protect them from bad content would be to allow content that is registered as being not-bad. The majority of the bad content that they get could come in the form of images, or images of text that would be hard to read by computer (captcha). There is no way to protect children from seeing bad content on TV, Cable or the internet (which is now on their phone). As others above have pointed out, the best way to protect is to arm your children with a sense of what is right and wrong. Spend enough time with them to teach them good and bad, and then sit back and hope it all worked. I have a 21 and a 17 year old at home and they both have gone down the bad path at some point and we have resticted cable and internet to be used in a place that we can look over their shoulder. Not that we do look much, but the youngest knows that we could at any momenent, and that is part of the deal with access.
If the DOJ can secure it so that only valid law enforcement users can access the system, it will be fine. I am sure that most of the data that is in the system is not admissable in court, so they would have to track down the real evidence and not be able to use invalid data that was put into a database of information. It may point the finger at someone, but they will not be convicted based on wrong information in a DOJ file.
Would be an interesting way of distributing albums of MP3's. Would it allow encryption so that you would have to use the original chip to move music to another device? Keep your entire music collection in your wallet?
Some utilities have a rule that they have to buy your extra energy at the same rate that they pay for other utilities to give them extra during high loads. In some areas that would make your windmill actually pay for itself after just a few years. The state I live in has been trying to put in windmills for the utility, but have been blocked because the huge blades have potentially killed some birds (mostly birds that are not even native to the area). Stopped forward movement until the study of how many birds and what type is completed, which will likely be years. How about geothermal energy, maybe that will crack the planet in half. Always a drawback to anything that is "free"